The United States flag on flagpole in the middle of a jungle during World War II. United States soldiers marching. U.S. Navy sailors on battleships at sea. German leader Adolf Hitler with other officers in a hall. Lines of United States Army soldiers marching; United States Army Air Force crew members gathered at an airfield with many soldiers in front of and on top of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft. U.S. Navy sailors doing jumping jacks for calisthenic exercises on the deck of a ship at sea. View of factories and manufacturing facilities with smoke pollution pouring out of smokestacks. American women war workers entering or leaving a factory, and then wearing uniforms and working in various war materiel factories. A man explains the work to female workers. Nazi German officers in their office discuss that the American women can only be playgirls, they cannot work for the nation with the army. German flags in the office. American women work as technicians in factories and welders welding military equipment. They weld airplane parts and naval landing barges. They install wiring in planes and inspect armament shells and radio tubes. Views of uniformed women in the armed forces of the United States, including groups of women army soldiers (WAAC or WACS), a group of women in the Navy, and female Marines marching. A group of nurses at a field hospital poses and smiles.
American women at work in war production factories during World War II. A woman working on a lathe answer why she is contributing to the war effort. They produce various war materials. They are asked about their engagement in producing the war materials. They cite their reasons for producing these materials. “My husband is a prisoner of the Japs in the Philippines. If he’d have a few more of these shells out in the pan, maybe he’d still be fighting. Whenever I get a bit tired, I think of him on that death march.” a woman answers, clenching a handful of shells from a container. They produce equipment useful in war and other products. A woman working on the plexiglass nose turret of a bomber aircraft in an airplane manufacturing plant. They wear uniforms and work on machines to produce for the war effort.
American women produce war materiel in factories across the United States during World War II. Women march in uniforms. They participate in the military operations. They work in ammunition factories as war production workers. They operate machines in factories making aircraft. Women weld equipment, work on the wings of fighter and bomber planes and repair the airplane parts. They work on various machines and motors of aircraft. They sew parachutes for the soldiers and inspect parts of machines.
United States Employment Service helps find jobs to women during World War II. The government agency also arranges training programs for the women war production workers. Women workers in the shipyards repairing the parts of the battleships and making equipment for battleships. Women tighten nuts on ship body with large wrenches. Women tossing rivet materials to other women workers. Women building ships. They are asked why they are doing that work. They respond that their family members are in army, and they want to work with them. The United States Employment Service recruits female workers for the war work. View of offices and clerical workers helping to place workers for the war effort.
Celebration of Army Day during World War II in Washington DC, United States. People gather in front of the Capitol Building to watch the event. Soldiers march. Trees along the sides of the street. Soldiers on horses. Secretary of War Stimson, General George Marshall and other high army officials review the troops. They salute the soldiers. Soldiers in Jeeps move on the street.
View of various Irish store fronts and sign boards in Yorkville, New York (upper east side of Manhattan). The sign boards read: 'New Dublin Siopa', 'New Dublin Ladies Wear', 'Rohan's Dairy', 'Sullivan's Cafe', 'Irish Meat Market', 'Irish Soda Bread'. A man walks. Irish girl places a newspaper 'Irish Echo' in the paper rack on which is written 'Irish Digest'. Headline of a newspaper reads: 'Ireland wants no war' in World War II. Store fronts and signs 'Shamrock Bar', 'Shannon's Cafe' and 'Irish American Cafe'.
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