Welcome to the Museum of Women of WWII Curator’s Office Women at Home Women in Public Working Women

Return to Museum Entrance Mr. Fitzpatrick Hello. I’m the House A Social Studies teacher at Hug High School. My focus is in World and U.S. History.

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Return to Room rstories.org/wp/?cat =91 Betty Stagg Turner Women like Betty Stagg Turner became actual pilots during WWII. They were not allowed to fly in combat but did work as test pilots and transporters. This allowed more men to fly combat missions.

Return to Room ning.org/tps/step2/s_s/exhibit s.shtml Women Photographers Therese Bonney was a wartime photographer who lived in both the U.S. and Europe. Her pictures during WWII brought to the American people what life was like for those who were not fighting in Europe. Many of her pictures focused on women and children.

Return to Room ive.html Rosie the Riveter Although this poster was created by J. Howard Miller before the term Rosie the Riveter was popular, it later becomes an icon of the women who worked in factories in place of the men who left for war.

Return to Room nwwii.com/marines /womenmarines.asp Free a Marine During WWII there was a movement to involve women in the military doing jobs that men typically would do, allowing these men to go off and fight on the front lines.

Return to Room /2008/05/photo-of-the-17.html Women and Aircraft Women such as this one, worked extensively on aircraft during WWII. This gave many women skills that they otherwise wouldn’t have had to retain jobs in specific industries.

Return to Room php?gallery_id=60&bcolor=tan&list=1 Women on the Assembly Line This picture shows women on a fuse assembly line in Philadelphia, PA in 1941.

Return to Room bheleftbehind.jpg The Job HE Left Behind This poster created during WWII was made to motivate women to get out of the house and fill jobs that men were leaving as they were enlisting and being drafted. The poster was to evoke a feeling of pride for the U.S. and the men who were fighting.

Return to Room v/blackhistory/2007 /worldwars.html Women in the Factories This picture is a prime example of women replacing men in factories. This women, Bertha Stallworth was 21 at the time. This picture also shows how racial barriers were starting to break down during WWII.

Return to Room Ihttp://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyb log/politics/index.html Resourceful Women During WWII, it became a woman’s responsibility to gather items such as rubber that the government or military could use toward making wartime products.

Return to Room ego.edu/gen/st/~cg 3/pageone.html Victory Garden Along with men, women spent a lot of time tending to victory gardens. These were relatively big gardens that people could sustain themselves on the food it grew, thus saving time, money and man power.

Return to Room d_War_II/cookbooks.html Rationing in the Kitchen Grandma’s Wartime Guide was a cookbook and guide to help women with rationing on a daily basis. The book helped women figure out how much of a scarce item you could use and how far you could stretch its use.

Return to Room pageone.html Make This Pledge To try and keep food prices down and avoid inflation the government put out posters to persuade women not to buy black market items or pay black market prices. The poster here has the actual pledge.

Return to Room /fashion/1940sfashion.asp Women’s Fashion Even though materials were running low during the war, women and men were encouraged to buy clothing to keep the fashion industry and the economy going strong. With Paris falling to the Germans, Hollywood became the fashion capital during the war.

Return to Room van_Playlists/Playlists_for_ html Women’s Jazz Bands In the entertainment world many musicians left there fields to fulfill their duty to the country. This void was filled from what had been becoming popular, women jazz bands such as International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

Return to Room hp?storyId= Women’s Professional Baseball League During the height of WWII America’s past time was put on hold. Many of Baseballs biggest stars enlisted in the military, leaving a void that would be filled with women. The league ran from

Return to Room eh.gov/LaunchPad/L aunch-FlyGirls.html Traditional Roles Not all roles that women had during WWII were unconventional. Nursing which traditionally was a women’s job saw an increase in enlistment in order to help in the war effort.