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2. American women in World War II - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Women in World War II - Wikipedia

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   A Companion to World War II (2 vol 2015) 2:717–738; Cook, Bernard A. Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present (ABC-CLIO 2006) Cottam, K. Jean (1980). "Soviet Women in Combat in World War II: The Ground Forces and the Navy". International Journal of Women's Studies. 3 (4): 345– 357. Diamond, Hanna. Women and the ...

4. House of Dolls - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] In the documentary film Memory of the Camps, a project supervised by the British Ministry of Information and the American Office of War Information during the summer of 1945, camera crews filmed women who had been forced into sexual slavery, reporting that "Dachau had its own brothel for the use of guards and favored prisoners."

5. Bibliography of World War II memoirs and autobiographies

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   This is a Bibliography of World War II memoirs and autobiographies. This list aims to include memoirs written by participants of World War II about their wartime experience, as well as larger autobiographies of participants of World War II that are at least partially concerned with the author's wartime experience.

6. The Nightingale (Hannah novel) - Wikipedia

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   The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation there. The book was inspired by accounts of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory. [1] [2] The Nightingale entered multiple bestseller lists upon release. As of ...

7. Modern Woman: The Lost Sex - Wikipedia

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   Lundberg and Farnham wrote Modern Woman: The Lost Sex in the years following World War II, as American society was attempting to return to normalcy. One of the most significant social changes during World War II had been the involvement of American women in the war efforts, both abroad and on the homefront. Over 350,000 women served in some ...

8. List of female SOE agents - Wikipedia

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   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.

9. Odette Hallowes - Wikipedia

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   Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes, GC, MBE (née Brailly; 28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995), also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during the Second World War. She was the first woman to be awarded the George Cross by ...