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Margaret Barnard Pickel wrote this bold expose regarding college women refusing to enter the military; an ongoing concern regarding college women was that they felt they were too intellectual to enter the military without holding a rank.

The New York Times did a spread in 1943 describing the conditions of training for women in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve.

Ruth Sulzberger wrote an article regarding women's colleges during the war; at a time when women's colleges were seen as obsolete, the opportunities rising out of wartime have given women, and college students, new aims.

In response to the media blast of women as wartime heroes in 1942, Newsweek released an article nearly a year later deeming the enthusiasm "premature," claiming that the involvement of women in the war has died down and should be higher.

Even in 1943, the country was already thinking about what would come next for women once wartime became peacetime. Monthly Labor Review released an article discussing the possibilities for women post-war, including how they could implement their new…

In 1941, before the United States had entered World War II, a Disaster Relief Preparedness for the Red Cross Association was enacted and enforced by the Toledo Chapter; multiple, women-run groups also pledged to join the efforts when and if they were…

Serving as a war production plant, Willys-Overland Motor Company of Toledo, Ohio, produced thousands of Jeeps for the war effort; this photo captures what they looked like coming off the assembly line.

Three women sit in a Willys-Overland Jeep as it balances on four bottles; a WWII product demonstration.