She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: 1943

  • TIME CAPSULE: Women in the Labor Force

    Before World War II, most women employed were typically young and unmarried. However, around two million women took up clerical roles during the war, and approximately one million joined the federal government workforce. By the war’s end, the female labor force consisted mostly of married women over 35. Notably, the number of married women working…

  • New WAC Goal Set At Half Million

    Source:”‚“New WAC Goal Set At Half Million.” Tulsa World, 6 July 1943, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/tulsa-world/137971622/ NEWSREEL: The president has signed the bill changing the WAAC to the Women”™s Army Corps (WAC), giving its members full Army status and commissioned rank. TIME CAPSULE: Once more, the recently arrived WACs took precedence over the well-established group of…

  • official record: Sick

  • America’s Pampered Husbands

    Source: Stern, Edith M. “America”™s Pampered Husbands.” The Nation, 10 July 1943, pp. 40”“42.

  • 16,000,000 Women At Work

    Source: Anderson, Mary. “16,000,000 Women At Work.” The New York Times Magazine, 18 July 1943, pp. 18”“29.

  • Wide Variety of Uniforms Worn By Women at Air Field

    Source: “Wide Variety of Uniforms Worn By Women at Air Field.” The San Bernardino County Sun, 25 July 1943, p. 11. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun/127947314/

  • Three Truax Nurses – The Army Nurse

    Source: “Three Truax Nurses – The Army Nurse.” Wisconsin State Journal, 25 July 1943, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal/127969401/

  • The Army Nurse

    Source: Motl, Josephine, et al. “The Army Nurse.” Wisconsin State Journal, 25 July 1943, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal/127872506/

  • Official Record: Sick