World War II exhibit features women鈥檚 role
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THE terrors of World War II impacted most of the world’s women, both on the home and battlefronts.
A new exhibition at the International Museum of World War II in Natick, Massachusetts, which runs until October 7, highlights just that — the important and unconventional roles women took on during the war.
“It’s about the human story,” founder Kenneth Rendell explains. “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase and honor women’s service to the war effort.”
“Women in WWII: On the Home Fronts and the Battlefronts” is composed of more than 100 artifacts from the US, UK, Soviet Union, Germany, Japan and France. For many women, wartime was about more than rationing food for their families.
In the Soviet Union, 400,000 women drafted as “Red Army girls” filled roles as doctors and even snipers. One photograph shows paranurses jumping out of a plane into a war zone, strapped with medical supplies to save wounded soldiers.
Kathryn Bernheim became one of 27 American women chosen by the Army Air Force in 1942 to ferry planes in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Service program. As a civilian with more than 1,000 hours of flight experience, Bernheim flew aircraft like the P-47 Thunderbolt, relieving men for combat flying until politics ended the program in 1944. The exhibit showcases her flight jacket, dress uniform and a photo of her looking at a map.
Not all women had such dramatic roles, but millions across the US served as postal workers, trash collectors and manufacturers, roles previously held by men.
Some women could not risk being as visible in their daring new roles. Female members of the French resistance would load forbidden radios and weapons into the secret compartment of a baby carriage.
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