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Bibliography: v.1, p. 363-366. ; v.1. Military participation.--v.2. Industry and agriculture.--v.3. Home front volunteer services.--v.4. Gold star honor roll. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The consequences of WWII military service for women veterans are assessed via analysis of survey data collected in 1945 from 6,658 enlisted women & 532 nurses & in 1984-1986 from 485 women veterans. Focus is on: (1) personal background & work experience; (2) motivation for joining the armed service; (3) military service as a critical life episode; (4) postwar plans & reality; & (5) the psychological impact of service. 1 Table. D. Generoli

Pollock reviews WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC by Mark D. Roehrs and William A. Renzi.

Apart from the intrinsic value of understanding the fate of Japanese workers during the war, Japanese labor history in World War II also gives us a non-Western point of comparison for studies of wartime labor in the West. To facilitate that comparison, we should consider government policy, the response of the labor movement, and the conditions of workers during the war. In Japan, labor and economic history periodization of World War II does not conform to the European and American conceptions. For the Japanese, the war began with the outbreak of the "China incident" in 1937; Pearl Harbor, traumatic as it was for the United States, only marks the beginning of a new stage the Japanese call the "Pacific War." It is not surprising, then, that Japanese labor history begins its wartime phase in 1937. In fact, to comprehend changes during the 1937–45 war, at least brief mention must be made of earlier developments.

In World War II, 350,000 women served in the American military. Was this service a critical event in their lives as it has been in the lives of many men? This article describes background characteristics of women who served and their reasons for volunteering, and focuses on some short-and long-term effects of this service on their attitudes and values. The work is based on surveys taken at the time (but not analyzed), and on a questionnaire developed by the author and filled out by 338 women veterans of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps, the WAC, WAVES, Marine Corp Women's Reserve, and SPARS.

Wilfred Owen, one of the poetic voices stilled by World War I, chose as his subject "war and the pity of war," finding his poetry in the pity. It can be argued that even then the pity had gone out of war. It is certain that the events of subsequent wars—large and small, local as well as worldwide—have been so pitiless in character and conduct that little or no "poetry" remains.We are three-quarters through a century of unprecedented violence, with the grim prospect of even greater evils tying ahead. In his Twentieth Century Book of the Dead Gil Eliot offers what he considers a reasonable estimate of 100,000,000 "man-made" deaths since 1900. That figure alone is enough to give us pause. But it is not merely the number of deaths that should concern us here, but who is killed and the manner in which the victims are killed. In World War I, of the ten million or so victims, 90 per cent were soldiers. The carnage of World War II was so great and so indiscriminate that an equally simple estimate is almost impossible to contrive.

Unused ration books from World War II, various rations, gas, store, tires, shoes, fuel oil, etc ; https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/manuscript-finding-aids/1440/thumbnail.jpg