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A Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) despatch rider on a tea break, seated on her P&M 500cc single, 1918. WAAC recruitment poster. Women volunteered to serve in the military in special women-only corps; by the end of the war, over 80,000 had enlisted. [27] [28] Many served as nurses in the following:
The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I (U of North Carolina Press, 2017). xvi, 340 pp. Greenwald, Maurine W. Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (1990) ISBN 0313213550; Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War. Urbana: University of Illinois ...
At the Ladies’ Aid Society a group of women from Cleveland met and organized a "blanket raid" to collect blankets for the troops of soldiers. Months after the women organized the raid, they connected with other local groups to create the Soldiers' Aid Society. The organization was financed by private donations to care for the sick and wounded.
The Women's Reserve Camouflage Corps was a specialized unit of American women artists formed during World War I to design and test camouflage techniques for the military. They created both clothing and disguised military equipment for the war effort. Disbanded at the end of the war, women volunteered again to work on camouflage projects in ...
During World War 1, they fought on the front lines for 191 days, longer than any other American unit. And as a result, suffered the most casualties of any American regiment—losing approximately ...
The book is based on the diaries of several of the women who served as operators and outlines WWI battles and offensives in which the Hello Girls played key roles. [ 13 ] In June 2018, the documentary film The Hello Girls , telling the story of America's first female soldiers, was released featuring film and photographs from the National Archives.
Women's participation in WWI fostered the support and development of the suffrage movement, including in the United States. [7] During the Second World War, women's contributions to industrial labor in factories located on the home front kept society and the military running while the world was in chaos. [2]
The original black and white photographs were painstakingly colourised to mark the World War One centenary.