American Women during World War II: An Encyclopedia

The author, Doris Weatherford, had been thinking, for over four decades, about “Women” and “World War II” and, as a result, had resolved to tackle the subject when time permitted. However, whenever that time came, she was concerned that others would not share her belief that the role of women in the conflict merited a separate account. This was the kind of “patronising” attitude the author feared she might encounter when she addressed the Council on America's Military Past annual convention in 1995. However, her fears about “overstating the case for women” were soon dispelled when a Two Star Admiral...