The US Home Front 1941–45
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The outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939 led to cautious attempts to raise volunteer organisations among American men and women, to back the armed forces in the event of the USA becoming directly involved in the conflict.
The attack on Pearl Harbor caused a huge surge of patriotic response, and voluntary enlistment in a wide range of armed forces auxiliary and civilian support services swelled vastly. Looking firstly at the background and general character of wartime life in the States, this book covers a number of these services, providing an interesting comparison with the conditions on the British Home Front and the experiences of other countries caught up in the war, examining organisations from the Red Cross to the Coast Guard and for the first time, containing full-colour reconstructions of over a dozen uniformed services.
Table of Contents
ENEMY AND HOMEGROWN FASCISM: U-Boats – Japanese shelling, bombing and balloons – the German-American Bund
HOME DEFENSE & PREMILITARY TRAINING: office of Civil Defense – Reserve Officers Training Corps – Civilian Military Training Camps; State Defense Forces
PATRIOTIC SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: United Service Organizations – Daughters of the Defenders of the Republic – American Women's Voluntary Services – Bundles for America – National Security Women's Corps – National Women's Council of the Navy League
HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS: American Red Cross – Public Health Service – American Women's Hospitals reserve Corps – Women's Ambulance & Defense Corps of America – Junior American Nurse Inc – American Field Service
MARITIME SERVICES: Army Transport Service – Coast and Geodetic Survey – Merchant Marine – US Coastguard Auxiliary
AERONAUTICAL SERVICES: Air Transport Command – British Flying Training Schools – Civil Air Patrol – Relief Wings Inc – Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron – Women's Airforce Service Pilots
THE WORKFORCE: Civilian Conservation Corps – “Rosie the Riveter”: Women Ordnance Workers – Women's Land Army
CHILDREN AT WAR: Boy & Girl Scouts – Victory Corps
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
PLATE COMMENTARIES
INDEX
Product details
| Published | 06 Feb 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 64 |
| ISBN | 9781846032080 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | 55 b/w; 8 col |
| Dimensions | 248 x 184 mm |
| Series | Elite |
| Short code | ELI 161 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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