Author: United States. Adjutant-General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
65 Questions and Answers about WACs in the Army Air Forces
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
65 Questions and Answers about WACs in the Army Air Forces
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Dress and Identity in America
Author: Daniel Delis HillPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350373931
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Dress and Identity in America is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950s-a backlash to the wartime tumult, privations, and social upheavals of the Second World War. The study looks at how American men sought to recapture a masculine identity from a generation earlier, that of the stoic patriarch, breadwinner, and dutiful father, and in the process, became the men in the gray flannel suits who were complacently conventional and conformist. Parallel to that is a look at how American women, who had donned pants and went to work in wartime munitions factories or joined services like the WACS and WAVES, were now expected to stay at home as housewives and mothers, dressed in cinched, ultrafeminine New Look fashions. As the Space Age dawned, their baby boom children rejected the conventions of their elders and experimented with their own ideas of identity and dress in an emerging era of counterculture revolutions.
The Army Air Forces in World War II: Men and planes
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Niagara Falls in World War II
Author: Michelle Ann KrattsPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439658552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Niagara Falls, both a natural wonder and a tourist destination, played a prominent role on the homefront during the Second World War. Many men and women worked diligently stateside in wartime industrial plants. One of the area's largest employers, Bell Aircraft, produced P-39 Airacobras and P-63 Kingcobra fighter planes. The company also contributed to more than thirty thousand aircraft for America and its Allies. Other residents, including Mayor Edward W. Mirrington Jr., were called to serve. Through numerous personal interviews, photos and wartime recipes, author and local historian Michelle Ann Kratts honors the World War II efforts of locals both at home and abroad.
Lieutenant Colonel Emily U. Miller
Author: Kathleen E. R. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Vertical File Service Catalog
Author: Vertical File Service Catalog
Author: Creating GI Jane
Author: Leisa D. MeyerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231101448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Upheld current sex and race occupational segregation, assuring the public that women were in the military to do "women's work" within it, and resisting African-American women's protests against their relegation to menial labor. Yet Creating GI Jane is also the story of how, in spite of a palpable climate of repression, many women effectively carved out spaces and seized opportunities in the early WAC. African-American women and men worked together in demanding civil.
Women and Military Service
Author: Margaret Conrad DevilbissPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993096
Category : Sex discrimination against women
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description