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VI. In many Allied countries women were encouraged to join female branches of the armed forces or participate in industrial or farm work.
A. By 1944, more than 2.3 million women were working in the war industries in the U.S., building ships, aircraft, vehicles, and weaponry
1.Women also worked in factories, munitions plants and farms, drove trucks, provided support for soldiers and entered professional areas of work that were previously the preserve of men.
2. In the Allied countries thousands of women enlisted as nurses serving on the front lines.
a. The hard skilled labor of women was symbolized in the United States by the figure of Rosie the Riveter.
VII. American women also saw combat during World War II, firstly as nurses in the Army Nurses Corp and United States Navy Nurse Corps during the Pearl Harbor attacks on 7 December 1941.
A. In July 1943 a bill was signed making the Women's Army Corps an official part of the regular army, but not in combat units.
1.American women also performed many varieties of non-combat military service in special units such as the WAVES, Women's Army Corps, and Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
2. Carmen Contreras-Bozak, who became the first Hispanic to join the WAC's, serving in Algiers under General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Minnie Spotted-Wolf the first female Native American woman to enlist in the United States Marines.