WWII Photos

From 1940 to 1945  working women had rose from 25% to 35% of the workforce. By the end of the war, approximately one of four married women worked outside the home. In 1943, nearly 310,00 women were working the in  U.S. aircraft industry alone. Annette del Sur publicizing a salvage campaign for the Douglas Aircraft Company Part of […]

WWII Color Kodachrome pictures from the Office of War Information (OWI). These photographs were taken between September 1940 and April 1943. September 1940. Jack Whinery, Pie Town, New Mexico, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children in their dirt-floor dugout home. Whinery homesteaded with no cash less than a year ago