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U.S. Army Signals Intelligence Service cryptologists, mostly women, at work at Arlington Hall circa 1943. The Code Girls or World War II Code Girls is a nickname for the more than 10,000 women who served as cryptographers (code makers) and cryptanalysts (code breakers) for the United States Military during World War II, working in secrecy to break German and Japanese codes.
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
A Companion to World War II (2 vol 2015) 2:717–738; Cook, Bernard A. Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present (ABC-CLIO 2006) Cottam, K. Jean (1980). "Soviet Women in Combat in World War II: The Ground Forces and the Navy". International Journal of Women's Studies. 3 (4): 345– 357. Diamond, Hanna. Women and the ...
Vorne was raised in New York. She spoke and read Russian and Ukrainian fluently. [4] In his book, The Pin-Up Girls of World War II, Brett Kiser wrote that Vorne was a "simple" and "modest" girl with an "awe-inspiring anatomy" who never drank alcohol, never visited night clubs, and avoided staying out late.
Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.
During World War II, there was a significant shortage of soldiers who were able to manage the postal service for the U.S. Army overseas. [6] In 1944, Mary McLeod Bethune worked to get the support of the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, for "a role for black women in the war overseas."
During World War II, Japanese troops forced hundreds of thousands of women from Australia, Burma, China, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, New Guinea and other countries into sexual enslavement for Japanese soldiers; however, the majority of the women were from Korea. [8]
Campbell, D'Ann. "Women in Combat: The World War Two Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union" Journal of Military History (April 1993), 57:301–323. online edition; Campbell, D'Ann. "The women of World War II." in A Companion to World War II ed. by Thomas W. Zeiler(2013) 2:717–738. online