#women in wwii

[musingsofahistorymajor]

https://people.com/tyler-perry-the-six-triple-eight-first-look-exclusive-8701722

We finally have a trailer and a release date for the Six Triple Eight movie!! December 20, 2024 on Netflix!!

I'm so so excited for this movie! And everything I see looks so good. The hair styles, the civilian outfits, the uniforms are worn correctly and with the right insignia and hats. The clips in the trailer look so good and accurate and I'm so excited!!!

It's about time we had a WWII film focused on women. Where the women are not background characters. Where the focus is not a love story. Where the women are not props for the men's stories. Finally we have a movie about what women did during World War II that isn't about the home front or nursing! Cause they did SO MUCH during the war and it's never told.

The story of the 6888th Battalion is incredible and I'm beyond thrilled to see it told this way. Me and my fellow female WWII reenactors are going to have a watch party.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Amelia Thomala, one of the women taking men's jobs during World War II, October 17, 1943. She is framed between two wing tips, at the plant in Mineola. The tops are bowed for better stabilization.

Photo: Ed Ford for the AP

[blakelysco-pilot]

WELCOME TO THE CLUBMOBILE

Hi friends! @winniemaywebber and I want to welcome you to The Donut Dollie’s podcast! If you’re over on Instagram, and feel so inclined, please give us a follow. We hope you’ll join us as we dive into the history of Women during Wartime both at home and on the front lines, as well as the military history that surrounds them. We’ll be covering topics from books, films and the different branches of the military that women served in to help pave the way for women today. You’ll also get special guest episodes from us with friends of the pod, as they join us to talk their favorite topics and what makes them tick when it comes to history.

So, The Clubmobile is open folks, and we hope you stop by and join us for coffee and a donut or two!

[bohemian-nights]

It looks promising 🤞🏽

[silhouettesofficial]

In honor of Tessa Connor, half the main cast of Silhouettes, who is very much having a birthday today, I thought I’d post some less common WWII propaganda posters! Later in the series, Tessa’s job becomes more involved in production of visual arts for the war effort; here’s a sampling of the kinds of things her work might entail or be derivative of.

—Lucy

[noneedtoamputate]

Digging into some Masters of the Air stuff and discovered that Robert Rosenthal's wife, Phillis Heller, served as a WAVE and was a fellow lawyer. They met on the ship taking them to the Nuremberg Trials, where they both served as staff attorneys.

[tumbldtings]

The Women Who Helped Win World War II

During World War II, women played a crucial role in the war effort, both on the front lines and on the home front. From pilots to factory workers, women took on a wide range of roles that were traditionally reserved for men.

One of the most well-known groups of women in World War II were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs). These women were trained to fly military aircraft in non-combat roles, freeing up male pilots for combat duty. Over 1,000 women served as WASPs, flying over 60 million miles in total. Despite their contributions, the WASPs were not recognized as veterans until 1977.

On the home front, women worked in factories, producing the planes, tanks, and other equipment that was needed for the war effort. The iconic "Rosie the Riveter" character, which was popularized in propaganda posters during the war, represented the millions of women who worked in the factories.

In addition to their work in the military and industry, women also served as nurses, spies, and codebreakers during the war. Women played a vital role in cracking the German Enigma code, which was instrumental in the Allied victory.

The contributions of women in World War II were often overlooked and undervalued at the time, but their efforts paved the way for greater opportunities for women in the workforce and the military. Today, we remember and honor the women who helped win the war and paved the way for future generations of women.

[histcryprincess]

French girls wearing their German boyfriends uniforms during World War 2. The photo on the right was found on a German POW.

[aevris]

doodle of a bat/myotis sonar operator for a setting i'm rotating in my brain

[victusinveritas]

[musingsofahistorymajor]

Our first teaser for the Six Triple Eight movie was included in Netflix's 2024 upcoming releases promo!!

For those who don't know, the Six Triple Eight is about the 6888th Central Postal Battalion which was the all POC regiment of the Women's Army Corps during World War II. They served in England sorting through the massive backlog of mail that had accumulated. Receiving mail from home was such an important morale boost for the men and high morale wins wars so sorting this mail was a priority. It was a nearly impossible task that the Army predicted would take them years to accomplish but they completed the task in half the time, processing 17 million pieces of mail and sending them to soldiers awaiting news from home. They worked in cold, dirty, dark rat infested aircraft hangars with broken windows. They were so good at their work that the unit was sent to several other areas to do the same thing. The unit was active from 1945 to 1946 and consisted of 855 women under the Command of Major Charity Adams, Captains Mary F. Kearney and Bernice G. Henderson. Their nickname was “Six-Triple Eight" and their motto was “No Mail, Low Morale."

I'm so excited for this film, you have no idea. An entire movie completely focused on telling the story of women. And not just women, black women! It's so exciting! And it looks fantastic just from this short teaser. I know the historical consultant of the show personally and she knows WAC history better than anyone and it definitely shows. The uniforms are pretty perfect. The only mistake I've seen so far, which is in a behind the scenes photo, is the utility bag (their purse) is on the wrong side. But that's a nit picky complaint from me I can overlook. But even the shots are so good!! They're recreating at least one original image I can think of. Which is so cool. God I'm so excited!!!!

Here are some original images of the 6888

[theglitterdome]

Betty White was a 20 year-old budding model and actress whose career was just taking off when she put it all on hold to join the American Women's Voluntary Services as a truck driver, where she transported supplies to various Army barracks across California. Often working 16 hour days, she drove trucks for the duration of the war before resuming her acting career. "It's the least I could do to support those precious boys overseas" she said of her time as an Army truck driver during WWII.

[blakelysco-pilot]

Want to give a big, huge, thank you to @bastet55 // @lestweforget5 for providing me with the resource to suss out this particular wwii item. Thanks to them, I was able to narrow down the month & year of the LIFE Magazine photos and article, and then find physical copies.

My friend, I cannot thank you enough, I am certainly going to treasure this💗

Date of Publication: February 28, 1944 LIFE Magazine

Cover: Ella Raines

Pages 110-111: LIFE Visits Red Cross Girls in England

Featured is the ARC Clubmobile North Dakota, which Katherine ‘Tatty’ Spaatz served on during her time in the Red Cross during the war.

[fuckyeahhistorycrushes]

Tamara Wiszniewska (1919-1981) - Polish actress

Tamara Wiszniewska was born on December 19, 1919 in Dubno, Poland (now a region in western Ukraine) on the banks of the Ikva River. It was here that she spent her younger years during which she picked up dancing, which eventually led her to her career in film. In her 1981 obituary in the Democrat & Chronicle, it was reported that Tamara, at age 15, “Was a ballet dancer, when German film director Paul Wegener discovered her and gave her a role in the historical film, August der Starke (August the Strong)” which premiered in 1936. This German/Polish co-production is a biographical look into the life of Augustus II, ruler of Saxony and Poland-Lithuania from 1694-1733. Although Tamara played only a small role it marked her debut and eventual rise to fame within the Polish film industry.

Following her appearance in August der Starke, Tamara appeared in thirteen other films between 1936 and 1939, including Trójka Hultajska (The Trio Hultajska, 1937), Ordynat Michorowski (Ordinate Michorowski, 1937), and Kobiety nad Przepaścią (Women Over the Precipice, 1938). Wladyslaw (Walter) Mikosz, Tamara’s future husband, produced two of these films. In an interview, Tamara and Walter’s daughter, Irene, states that, "The two met because of their film careers, and were married [late that same year] in 1937".

Life for the Mikoszs was happy for a time. Tamara continued to pursue her acting career through 1938 and 1939 and had welcomed a new born daughter into the world alongside her husband, Wladyslaw. Unfortunately, these happy times did not last long as the Mikosz family experienced the rise of Nazi Germany and their occupation of Poland in 1939 during World War II. The following excerpt from an interview with Tamara in a 1974 Times Union tells how drastically their lives were changed:

"I always played a rich spoiled girl who had lovely clothes, and for a short time I lived that kind of life too. It was a short, beautiful life that ended when the Germans took over Poland in 1939. We were wealthy and the toast of the town then. We’d go to Prague and Vienna just to see an opera or to play in the casinos. When the Germans came, my intuition told me I should have something on me to exchange. I sewed my jewelry into my clothes. Later, it bought us passes to freedom and bread so we were never hungry."

The German occupation of Poland during World War II brought then “beautiful” life of the Mikosz family to an end. Gone were their illustrious careers in film and the rewards that such a life had brought to them. In a later interview, Irene mentioned that her mother "was preparing to sign a contract for a film career in Hollywood, but Hitler’s invasion of Poland derailed the plans". Sadly, Tamara’s last appearance on the silver screen was in 1939 prior to the invasion of Hitler’s Germany; she never again starred in any films.

Although her dreams had been crushed, Tamara and her family did not lose hope. They made the best of their current situation, and were able to survive by selling the fruits of their labors that they harvested during their days in the film industry; their lives had been consumed with a fight to survive rather than a dream to thrive. However, not being ones to live quiet lives, the Mikoszs volunteered for the Polish Underground, the exiled Polish government that fought to resist German occupation of Poland during World War II. As civilians with backgrounds in film, Tamara and Walter were most likely engaged in spreading Polish nationalistic and anti-German propaganda. Such efforts of the civilian branch of the Polish Underground was in support of what Jan Kamieński refers to as "small sabotage" in his book, Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within: "In contrast of major sabotage, the idea of small sabotage was to remind the German occupiers of an enduring Polish presence, to ensure that they felt a constant sense of unease and generally undermine their self-confidence". While attending to these duties within the Underground, the Mikosz family was separated and shipped off to separate countries: Tamara and her daughter, Irene, to Czechoslovakia (where Tamara’s parents had been sent) and Walter to Bavaria. The family was not reunited until 1945, when they were sent to the same refugee camp in Bavaria. The Mikoszs remained in the Bavarian refugee camp until the year 1950, in which they emigrated to the United States of America. Tamara and Walter lived quiet lives in Rochester, NY after arriving from a war-torn Europe, and did so until they passed away.

Although they have long since passed away from this Earth, the stories of the Polish film star, Tamara, and her film-producer husband, Wladyslaw Mikosz, will live on so long as there are people around to tell it.

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Comic Book Creator: Ramona Fradon

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A female air or civil defense soldier in Leningrad, 1941 with the M38 derivative of the British Brodie helmet and either an Pattern 1914 Enfield or an American M1917 rifle.