WWII Photos

Women at Work During World War II Between 1940 and 1945, the number of working women in the United States rose dramatically—from 25% to 35% of the national workforce. As millions of men served overseas, women stepped into factories, shipyards, and offices to keep the nation running. By the end of the war, one in […]

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