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The United States home front during World War II supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls. There was a general feeling of agreement that the sacrifices were for the national good during the war.
The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s. New York, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1982. Merryman, Molly. Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II. New York and London: New York University Press, 2001. Pfau, Ann Elizabeth. Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World ...
At the monument, there are 39 photographs, news clippings, and memorabilia. A timeline of World War II is presented in 25 panels laid along the Keel Walk, a 441 ft (134 m) walkway running the length of the memorial. [13] Interpretive signs and exhibits within the structures present information on women's history, labor history, and the home front.
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, Random House, New York, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-6964-4. Knaff, Donna B. Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women of World War II in American Popular Graphic Art (University Press of Kansas; 2012) 214 pages; excerpt and text search ISBN 9780700619665 OCLC 892062945
Life on the home front during World War II was a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Governments became involved with new issues such as rationing, manpower allocation, home defense, evacuation in the face of air raids, and response to occupation by an enemy power.
Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War. ISBN 978-1-59797-273-4. (excerpts in Smithsonian; NPR interview.) Stephanie A. Carpenter (2003). On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II. ISBN 978-0-87580-314-2. "Agriculture" in The Great Plains During World War II, ed. by R. Douglas Hurt. The Plains ...
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 File:We Can Do It (Hi-Res 1).jpg Hi-Res version 1 File:We can do it (Hi-Res 2).jpg Hi-Res Version 2. I was pleasantly suprised to see that this image was in the public domain, since it is one of the most enduring WWII home front images ever made.