Secondary Sources: Books & Articles - Women in the Military - WWII - LibGuides at Minnesota Historical Society Library

Books

A Woman's War Too: U.S. Women in the Military in WWII, edited by Paula Nassen Poulos.
Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996.
MNHS call number: D810 .W7 W65 1996

And Still Flying: The Life and Times of Elizabeth "Betty" Wall: W.A.S.P., by Patrick Roberts.
Fairbault, Minn.: Walking Shadow Publications, 2003.
MNHS call number: D810 .W7 R62 2003

Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War II, by Sally Van Wegenan Keil.
New York: Wade Publishers, 1978.
MNHS call number: D810 .W7 K43 1978

WASPS: Women Airforce Pilots of World War II, by Vera S. Williams.
Osceola, Wis: Motorbooks International, 1994.
MNHS call number: D790 .W493 1994

Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution, by Jeanne Holm.
Novato, Calif: Presidio Press, 1982.
MNHS call number: UB418 .W65 H64 1982

American Women and the U.S. Armed Forces: A Guide to the Records of Military Agencies in the National Archives Relating to American Women.
Washington, DC : National Archives and Records Administration, 1992.
MNHS call number: Reading Room U21.75 .S44 1992

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