Compared options for women in service with each military branch. Its good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today were going to talk about american women and world war ii. This is obviously a huge topic. We could spend a semester just on this topic alone. Were going to try to break it into three spaces. We will look at a lot of images to fit in with other things we have talked about. Were going to talk about american women. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. Were going to organize our ideas this way. Were going to look at a lot of the propaganda. We have been talking about propaganda throughout the semester and watching videos and things like that. We will get a chance to talk everybody found the video okay . Its a good one on women at work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. We will talk about these different parts of women during american women during world war ii. Were just hitt
American women in three ways, were going to talk about women at home. Women at work and women at war. Were just going to kind of organize our ideas this way, and were going to look at a lot of the propaganda, weve been talking about propaganda this semester, well get a chance to talk about everybody found that video okay, the all right, its a good one on women at work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. Well talk about that in this portion, well talk about that in these different parts of american women during world war ii, were just hitting the survey of this, theres so much we could talk about throughout the entire semester. And we do all of u. S. And world war ii, except we cant do all of it, we do our bits and pieces. Weve already talked about some of these things. Some of it will be familiar, especially when we get to the women at work part. Be sure to stop me if you have any questions and well do our thi thing. Sew women at home. When we think a
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Ivy where did they emigrate from . Joseph italy . Ivy any siblings . Joseph 11. Ivy are you oldest joseph im the youngest. Im the 12th one. Ivy oh, my goodness. Made you decide to enlist . Mother died when i was for, my father died when i was seven. Some brothersith and sisters that take turns and so by the time i was 15, i wasnt too happy. All my brothers, all my brothers served in the military. All five of my brothers were in world war ii. I always would have liked to join. So i falsified my baptismal certificate and went to work trying to enlist first in the marine corps. They knew i was underage and didnt let me in. And they to the army accepted me. Off to campy, i was breckenridge, kentucky. Ivy same day . Joseph yes. Wasnt aime, it school, it was just the 101st airborne. Ivy do your member what day . August 26. Ivy the day you enlisted in the day that you went . What year . Joseph 1948. Ivy were you going to school at the time . Joseph it was during Summer Vacation and i was a fr
At work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. But well talk about that. But well talk about these different parts of women american women during world war ii. Were just hitting the survey, theres so much we can talk about throughout the entire semester, and we do all of u. S. And world war ii, except we cant do all of it so we do our bits and pieces. Weve already talked about some of these. Some will be familiar. Especially when we get to women at work part. But then well go from there. Be sure to stop me if you have any questions and well do our thing. So women at home. So when we think about this one of the biggest things i want you to do today is think about this reality for the homefront, which is mainly what were talking about, and the reality of what life meant for women in the war. With one of the first that we often think about is all the men going away to war. The men are going off. That means who is left behind . The women. Right . The women.