Women in Defense is a 1941

1941 in film

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 short film produced by the Office of Emergency Management shortly before the United States

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 entered the Second World War

World War II

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Synopsis

Opening with a shot of a statue of "the pioneer woman who helped win a continent", the film briefly outlines the way in which women could help prepare the country for the possibility of war. Among the various way women could help were:

• working in a war materials manufacturing plant
• sewing parachutes for US servicemen
• attending free lectures on how to prepare nutritious meals on presumably rationed food
• Joining the WAC or the Red Cross
• donating blood

There is also a segment on the types of costumes women would wear while engaged in war work. At the end of the film, the narrator explains women are vital to securing a healthy American home life and raising children "which has always been the first line of defense".

See also

• List of Allied Propaganda Films of World War 2
• United States home front during World War II
  United States home front during World War II
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