"You came out to California, put on your pants, and took your lunch pail to a man's job. This was the beginning of women's feeling that they could do something more."
Sybil Lewis, a Lockheed Aircraft riveter
Delia Hahne, an educator who worked as a nurse's aid for the Red Cross during the war
-- quoted in Studs Turkel's The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
-- quoted in Studs Turkel's The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
She wanted to do something. In early 1944, with two women she had known in college, she joined the American Red Cross. "We just had to go."
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Women served bravely in World War II, even becoming prisoners of war and receiving medals and citations for their contributions. But once the war ended, they found themselves jobless and unrecognized.
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