Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Women in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 230 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Randolph opened her home during World War II with weekly dinners and entertainment for service people in the Los Angeles area through American Women's Voluntary Services. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Randolph played the role of the maid Birdie Lee Coggins in The Great Gildersleeve , a radio comedy and subsequent films, [ 19 ] and as Madame Queen on the Amos ...
American civilian or military women who had a role in World War II (1941-1945). Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
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. Their services were recruited through a variety of methods, including posters and other ...
Stella Ingrid Goldschlag, also known by her married names Stella Kübler, Stella Kübler-Isaaksohn and Ingrid Gärtner, (10 July 1922 – 26 October 1994) [1] was a German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II, operating around Berlin exposing and denouncing Berlin's underground Jews, after being tortured in Gestapo custody and falsely being promised the safety of ...
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
When Her Majesty, who died at age 96 on Thursday, September 8, married Prince Philip in 1947, the British government was still recovering from World War II — and materials needed to bring her ...
Typical women's and kids' fashion in Europe during the Forties, Hungary in 1943, during the Second World War. Writer Lillian Smith wears a dark suit with an open-collared blouse, 1944. Bathing suits worn by members of the WACs in North Africa, 1944. Argentine actresses Susana Freyre, Nelly Darén and Rita Juárez in Swan Song, 1945.