Such titles as, “Women, you could hasten victory by working and save your man,' abounded. Mothers, daughters, secretaries, wives and even schoolgirls picked up the factory duties the men had left behind.Ĭontinual appeals were issued from government sources throughout the war, with articles and ads placed in magazines to get women's attention. Who would 'man' the assembly lines in the factories to produce the many needed items for the current war? Filling a gross shortage of manpower, through the factory gates flooded an army of woman power. With American men enlisting in the war effort, the work force quickly diminished. The surprise attack left the nation stunned as President Roosevelt called the United States to war. The devastating results were 2,433 deaths, the destruction of 18 U.S. It all started that shocking Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, as 183 Japanese warplanes attacked America’s Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii.
