With the entry of the United States into the conflict, the entire country mobilized to arm and equip the men who would soon be fighting in the skies over Europe and the Pacific. The aviation industry appealed directly to women: mothers, daughters, wives, girlfriends, sisters, nieces and cousins in factories across different states, spending long sessions installing components and assembling aircraft, one rivet at a time...
Photographer Alfred T. Palmer created for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration a series of Kodachrome images that served as a propaganda method. Almost perfect faces with or without makeup, immaculate clothes, not a single grease stain.
https://old.neoteo.com/mujeres-de-ciencia-e-informatica-galeria/Reality proved to be much harsher, but thanks to the effort of all those women, American pilots managed to achieve victory even against superior units such as the jet fighters that the Luftwaffe introduced at the end of the war. However, none of them ever got to fly those planes, and the Air Force did not open its doors to women until the mid-70s...
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