
Colorado Women in World War II
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Four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Mildred McClellan Melville, a member of the Denver Woman's Press Club, predicted that war would come for the United States and that its long arm would reach into the lives of all Americans. And reach it did. Colorado women from every corner of the state enlisted in the military, joined the workforce, and volunteered on the home front. As military women, they served as nurses and in hundreds of noncombat positions. In defense plants they riveted steel, made bullets, inspected bombs, operated cranes, and stored projectiles. They hosted USO canteens, nursed in civilian hospitals, donated blood, drove Red Cross vehicles, and led scrap drives; and they processed hundreds of thousands of forms and reports. Whether or not they worked outside the home, they wholeheartedly participated in a kaleidoscope of activities to support the war effort.
In Colorado Women in World War II Gail M. Beaton interweaves nearly eighty oral histories-including interviews, historical studies, newspaper accounts, and organizational records-and historical photographs (many from the interviewees themselves) to shed light on women's participation in the war, exploring the dangers and triumphs they felt, the nature of their work, and the lasting ways in which the war influenced their lives. Beaton offers a new perspective on World War II-views from field hospitals, small steel companies, ammunition plants, college classrooms, and sugar beet fields-giving a rare look at how the war profoundly transformed the women of this state and will be a compelling new resource for readers, scholars, and students interested in Colorado history and women's roles in World War II.
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Thomas J. Noel
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Women in the Military
- 1. The Army Nurse Corps
- 2. The Navy Nurse Corps
- 3. The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Army Corps
- 4. The Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES)
- 5. Women Airforce Service Pilots
- 6. Women of the Coast Guard, the Merchant Marine Corps, and the Marine Corps Women's Reserve
- Part II. Women and Defense Work
- 7. WOW! Women Ordnance Workers
- 8. Colorado Women in the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries
- 9. Office Workers and Other Non-Industrial Workers
- 10. "Food for Victory": Colorado Farms, Ranches, and Victory Gardens
- Part III. The Home Front
- 11. The Cadet Nurse Corps
- 12. The American Red Cross
- 13. "We All Contributed"
- Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
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