Record details

• Physical Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
• Publisher: Olympia, Wash. : Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction, �2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Main program about 79 min., bonus materials about 24 min. total.

At head of title: "Funding for this program was provided by the Washington State Legislature."

"This presentation is a compilation of more than 100 hours of interview material."

Designed to be used in the classroom. Related Internet website The Voices of WWII <http://www.wwiihistoryclass.com/> includes lesson plans and ideas, interview transcripts, instructions on how to do oral history, information on scholarships and contests, and links to research sites. Lesson plans and lesson ideas apply to the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements "EALRS."

Formatted Contents Note:

Main program: During the war women went to work : [introduction] -- Rosie the Riveter -- For freedom's sake buy war bonds -- Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) -- No boys in this band -- For my country -- Boot camp -- Protocol? -- On the job -- Medical angels -- Dealing with death -- Love and war -- Marriage -- And baby makes three -- Internment -- Concentration camps -- Equality -- Final thoughts. -- Extras: Over there -- Glamour girls of 1943 : [newsreel] / United States Government ; produced by the Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures -- Slide show : [photographs from personal collections of the women interviewed].

System Details Note:

DVD, NTSC.

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Subject:

World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Washington (State)
World War, 1939-1945 > War work > Washington (State)
Women > Employment > Washington (State) > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Washington (State)
Washington (State) > History.
World War (1939-1945)
War work.
Women.
Women > Employment.
Washington (State)

Genre:

Feature films > United States.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Filmed interviews.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Personal narratives > American.