WWII Women’s Uniform: What The Servicewomen Wore During The World War II

World War II provided several job opportunities to women, especially in the defense industry, that had never before been open to women. The gap in the labor force created by departing soldiers opened many jobs for women. Before WWII, women’s duties were restricted to traditional professions such as sewing, teaching, nursing, and domestic service workers. And most women were expected to leave the job as soon as they were married or had children. Over five million women in the United States entered the workforce between 1940-1945. Approximately 350,000 American women joined the military and worked as nurses, drivers repairing and manufacturing airplanes, tanks, vehicles, and vessels.

Women worked in heavy industry, wartime production plants, chemical factories, volunteer policewomen, and several other jobs that had traditionally belonged to men. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved the first US government Community Facilities Act of 1942. Seven centers were built around the country servicing 105,000 children.

Here below are some photos that show uniform of female workers, including nurses, fire workers, officers, and several other professions from WWII.

#1 Members of the US Army Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps

1 Point

Upvote Downvote

#2 US Military Pilots

1 Point

Upvote Downvote

#3 Flame resistant suit with hood and bulletproof vest, US

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#4 Flame resistant suit with bulletproof vest (hood down)

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#5 Red Cross outdoor coat.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#6 Floater coat, capable of providing flotation for three days.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#7 Red Cross Motor Corps uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#8 Civil Defense canteen uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#9 Red Cross Motor Corps uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#10 American Womens Voluntary Services ski patrol uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#11 Land Army uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#12 Navy uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#13 Decontamination suit.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#14 Red Cross nurse’s aide uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#15 Red Cross uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#16 Civil Defense nurse’s uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#17 Soviet woman-officer during World War 2

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#18 Soviet woman soldier World War II.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#19 Red Cross Nurse wearing uniform smock dress, WWII

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#20 Woman in World War II military uniform

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#21 Women’s Army Corps Photographer

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#22 Women’s auxiliary Army corps France

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#23 A contingent of the Women’s Army Corps from America, who were the first black women assigned to overseas service.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#24 Women’s Army Corps at the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News, Virginia, 1940s.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#25 Female pilot of the US Women’s Air Force Service

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#26 Members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force line up for inspection at their London headquarters, England.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#27 Hungarian girl nationalists in Budapest where a women’s organisation had been formed on Nazi lines

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#28 ATS Recruits: youngest daughter of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#29 Members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) carrying aircraft machine guns

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#30 Members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) carrying aircraft machine guns

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#31 American Womens Voluntary Service motorcycle uniform.

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#32

0 Points

Upvote Downvote

#33

0 Points

Upvote Downvote