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More than 500 Army nurses served in various areas and theaters of the war. [1] [2] Captain Lillian Kinkella Keil, USAF, who had already made 250 evacuation flights (23 of which were transatlantic) during World War II, made 175 evacuation flights during the Korean War. As a result, she became one of the most decorated women in American military ...
Campbell, DAnn, and Karen Hagemann. "Post-1945 Western Militaries, Female Soldiers and Gay and Lesbian Rights" in The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 (2020). Carreiras, Helena. Gender and the military: Women in the armed forces of western democracies (Routledge, 2006). Goldschmidt, Arthur (2000).
There were 350,000 American women who served during World War Two and 16 were killed in action; in total, they gained over 1,500 medals, citations and commendations. Virginia Hall, serving with the Office of Strategic Services, received the second-highest US combat award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for action behind enemy lines in France.
Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union integrated women directly into their army units; approximately one million served in the Red Army, including about at least 50,000 on the frontlines; Bob Moore noted that "the Soviet Union was the only major power to use women in front-line roles," [2]: 358, 485 The United States, by ...
Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.
Campbell, D'Ann. "Women in Combat: The World War Two Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union", Journal of Military History 57 (April 1993), 301–323 online and in JSTOR 2944060; Campbell, D'Ann. "The women of World War II." in A Companion to World War II ed. by Thomas W. Zeiler(2013) 2:717–738. online
It took 60 years to recognize the first all-women soldiers of WWI. Now, descendants of the 'Hello Girls' are pushing for a Congressional Gold Medal.
The two major events in this time period were World War I and World War II. Please see Women in World War I and Women in World War II for more information. For articles specifically pertaining to the United States, see: Timeline of women in war in the United States, pre-1945 and Timeline of women in warfare in the United States from 1900 to 1949.