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Women’s Roles
With the demand for able-bodied men to serve overseas without a drop in production on the home front, women were able to step forward into roles previously denied them. They drove buses, worked in factories as welders, inspectors and riveters. They also wrote letters to those overseas, kept house and waited for their men to return.
With the demand for able-bodied men to serve overseas without a drop in production on the home front, women were able to step forward into roles previously denied them. They drove buses, worked in factories as welders, inspectors and riveters. They also wrote letters to those overseas, kept house and waited for their men to return.
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Quentin and Jackie Aanenson on the boardwalk at Atlantic City during their honeymoon in 1945.
Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson
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Quentin and Jackie Aanenson descend the church steps on their wedding day. They exchanged letters regularly while Quentin served overseas piloting a P-47 Thunderbolt.
Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson
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Portrait of Anne DeVico in 1943. She hailed from Waterbury and wrote often to her future husband, Bob Swift, during the war.
Source: Anne Swift
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Anne DeVico, center, and two friends, in downtown Waterbury. Easter, 1945.
Source: Anne Swift
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Her mother warned her that "nice girls" don't visit New York City.
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Shiro and Asako Tokuno on their wedding day. Minnesota, February 17, 1945.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Asako Tokuno and her husband, Shiro. February 10, 1945.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Asako Maida Tukuno was born in 1923 in Oakland, grew up in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Richmond, California. Her parents, Japanese immigrants, ran a successful flower nursery. She was a freshman at Berkeley in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Her parents were forced to leave the West Coast . . .
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Asako Tokuno, right, worked at the beauty parlor at Topaz Camp, where she was interned during the war.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Asako Tokuno, after the war, in her family's nursery
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Asako Tokuno performs household chores. 1943. Tokuno was interned at the Topaz Camp near Delta, Utah.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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With her pregnant sister-in-law due later in the month, Tokuno received eviction notice in August of 1945.
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Women workers on the B-17 production line at Douglas Aviation Co., Long Beach, California. October 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USE6-D-007812)
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Corado "Babe" Ciarlo was with the Fifth Allied Army, somewhere in Italy. His letters home were the most important thing his mother's life.
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Second Lieutenant Mildred L. Osby of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Washington, D.C. November 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-010677)
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Barbara Covington was born on February 16, 1924 in Sacramento. Her mother's family came to Oroville, California in the 1870s. Her father James William Covington had been president of the NAACP in Sacramento in the 1920s, but died when Covington was 3-1/2 years old. Covington moved with . . .
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Sacramento's Barbara Covington and Jeroline Green at a Halloween dance. Both worked at McClellan Air Force Base during the war.
Source: Barbara Perkins
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There was wonderful patriotism and people willing to fight.
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Nursing recruitment poster.
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-135)
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For maybe the first time in U.S. history, every citizen seemed involved in the war effort.
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