Pamphlet cover art. 1940s.
Science History Institute
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A soldier giving his wife a passionate kiss at Pennsylvania Station as he says goodbye before returning to duty after a brief furlough, 1944.
Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt via Google Arts & Culture
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A British anti-aircraft machine gun crew armed with a Lewis machine gun watch the sky during the Battle of Britain- South coast of England, 2nd August 1940
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A Woman’s War
Personnel shortages led the military to enlist more than 300,000 women volunteers during World War II. All of the military services created posters that encouraged women to join up. Thousands were recruited to serve as nurses. But many more chose to enter one of the women’s auxiliaries formed by the services.
Over 150,000 served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC/WAAC) in jobs ranging from telephone, radio, and teletype operator to cryptographer, medical technician, sheet metal worker, and aircraft mechanic.
The Navy recruited over 80,000 WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). They worked as clerks, secretaries, cryptologists, air traffic controllers, meteorologists, and translators.
The Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, established in February 1943, enrolled 23,000 women during the war.
While the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve enlisted more than 10,000 between 1942 and 1946.
Like some of the wartime posters that encouraged women to the join the industrial workforce, military recruitment posters sometimes offered mixed messages. Prevailing biases regarding gender roles dictated that women not serve in combat roles.
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Follow along throughout 2024 as we feature more #TheArtOfWar WWII posters from our Digital Artifact Collection.
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Lititz, Pennsylvania. "Small town in wartime. Peanut stand next to the Lutz butcher shop finds it hard to get peanuts since the war started. Peanut oil is needed in industry." Photographed 1942 by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.
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My family own one of those lower left radios. It wasn't until I was in my teens when I discovered that inside the lid there was a pull out antenna on a long cord for better shortwave reception.
The Saturday Evening Post - December 7th 1946
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"Hers is the bloom of youth. She's taken full advantage of the age she lives in--the age of modern, electrical servants that lighten household tasks. No wonder she looks younger than women to whom home-making is a daily round of drudgery!" (1940)
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Marching to victory via the victory garden. Henderson's everything for the garden. 1943. Garden catalog cover detail.
Internet Archive
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Backstage at Madison Square Garden, four participants in the Hollywood Bond Cavalcade Show horse around before they go on: Jose Iturbi (at piano), Lucille Ball, Harpo Marx, and Fred Astaire, September 11, 1943.
Photo: Associated Press
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A German soldier receives a letter from a loved one during the early stages of Operation Barbarossa - Eastern Front 1941
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Female blast furnace worker Bernice Daunora at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Works in Gary Indiana making steel for the war effort, she is wearing a personal protective breathing apparatus - 1943
LIFE Magazine Archives - Margaret Bourke-White Photographer
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