That first wave is deceiving. Without those women in the factories, half of us would be speaking German, the other half, Japanese.
No matter what anyone says about what WWII was really about, or who/what Hitler really was, or who really financed and orchestrated it all, without our industrial capacity running at 125% or better BECAUSE the women went to work, we would've had our asses handed to us in both theaters of operation. Those women allowed us to throw tens of millions of men at the Axis powers. Without that, this wouldn't be the U.S.A., and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
That first wave is deceiving. Without those women in the factories, half of us would be speaking German, the other half, Japanese.
No matter what anyone says about what WWII was really about, or who/what Hitler really was, or who really financed and orchestrated it all, without our industrial capacity running at 125% or better BECAUSE the women went to work, we would've had our asses handed to us in both theaters of operation. Those women allowed us to throw tens of millions of men at the Axis powers. Without that, this wouldn't be the U.S.A., and we wouldn't be having this discussion.