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Dramatic stories of women discovering their own potential in a time of national need, surprising themselves and others-and setting the roots of second wave feminism.
List of contents
Preface
The Beginning
1. A Long Way From Home
2. Internment, Resettlement, and Advocating for Peace
3. Witnessing the War Emerge
4. Within the German Resistance Movement
War Production, North Africa, and the Aleutian Islands
5. Carol the Riveter, Millie the Miner, and the WOWs
6. Accompanying General Eisenhower and the Troops into Africa
7. Fighter Planes: The Women Who Built and Flew Them
8. Semper Paratus, Always Ready
9. Lives Lost on United States Soil: The Aleutian Islands
The Homefront
10. Betty Crocker, Wives, and Mothers
11. On the Farm
12. "Boogy Woogy Bugle Boy" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
13. Radar Research and Navy Intelligence
14. Life of a WAC Stationed in the U.S.
The War in Europe
15. Witnessing D-Day and the Liberation of Paris
16. The 28th General Hospital during D-Day and Battle of the Bulge
17. Liberation of Dachau
18. War Bride
19. Civilian Relief in Italy and Austria
The Pacific Theater and End of the War
20. Serving in the Pacific Theater
21. Cryptographers and Spies
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima
24. Post War
Afterward
Timeline
About the author
Virginia Wright-Peterson has taught writing for over fifteen years and is on the administrative team at the University of Minnesota Rochester. She is the author of
Women of the Mayo Clinic: The Founding Generation.
