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According to Kevin Hymel, historian at the U.S. Air Force Medical Service History Office,“With their men away, women became more self-sufficient. Many brought tools home from work and used them on their own home repairs. They took on domestic roles they never had before.”
It’s estimated that up to six million women joined the civilian work force during World War II in both white and blue-collar jobs, such as:
streetcar operators
taxi drivers
construction workers
steel workers
lumber workers
munitions workers
agriculture workers
government workers
office workers
Women served in dangerous roles in the U.S. military.
Around 350,000 women served in the military during World War II. “Women in uniform took on mostly clerical duties as well as nursing jobs,” said Hymel.
“The motto was to free a man up to fight. Some women became translators in Naval Intelligence, enabling them to read classified enemy communiques. One woman said when she was inducted to Naval Intelligence, an admiral spoke to the assembled women and told them, ‘If you talk about anything you do here, we can legally kill you.’”
Women also served as truck drivers, radio operators, engineers, photographers and non-combat pilots. And the all-black, all-women 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was sent first to Birmingham, England, and then to Rouen, France, to process huge backlogs of undelivered mail.
According to Hymel, “The women in the most danger were nurses, who often came under artillery and aircraft fire near the front lines. They lived in the elements, sometimes in mud, heat and freezing temperatures, yet performed their duties alongside their male counterparts.”
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