The Women who Wrote the War
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Warren, Virginia Lee, 314-15
Warsaw, 67-69
Washington Post, 314
Wason, Betty, 105; Hitler’s advance on Greece, 112-16; Miracle in Hellas, 116, 391; postwar adjustment, 391; Scandinavia, 74-76
Weil, Simone, 2 5
Weller, George, 116
Wells, H. G., 127
Welsh, Mary, 82-85,92,170,171-72, 239; conscription of women, 128; France, 85-86, 90; and Hemingway, 221-22, 270-71, 392; in liberated Paris, 258-59; London Blitz, 99-101; London on D Day, Welsh, Mary (continued) 224; London, V-l rockets, 232-33; Pearl Harbor bombing, 148; post-surrender, 386; return to England after home leave, 195-96
Wertenbaker, Charles, 177-78, 255, 257,259,370-71
Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker Laird, 106-10, 112, 170, 177; Death of a Man, 393; in liberated Paris, 266; London, 127-28; Pearl Harbor bombing, 148; post-surrender, 386; postwar adjustment, 393; Rheims surrender, 370-71; trip to Berlin via Japan and Russia, 107-9
West, Rebecca, 25
West Wall, 276
Weyland, Otto P., 273
Whitaker, John, 32,54-55
White, Theodore H., 135, 295, 395
Whitehall Letter, 52
Whitehead, Don, 322, 351, 365-66
Whitmore, Annalee. See Jacoby, Annalee Whitmore
Wiley, Bonnie, 304, 305
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 100
Willis, Jerome, 40
Wilson, Johnny, 365, 366-69
Winant, John Gilbert, 149, 207
winter of 1945, 314
Withers, Audrey, 247
Wolf, Margaret, 241
Woman’s Home Companion, 302
Woman’s Land Army, 128
women: conscription of, 128; suffrage movement, 1,21; World War II, and changes in status of, 397-98
women reporters, 272-73, 276-77; arrests of, 150-51, 163-65; opening of Pacific theater to, 301, 303-4; opening of post-D Day France to, 242-55; uniforms, 170-71; as untapped resource for female at-home war readership, 211-12; wartime restrictions on, 170-71, 176-78,234,293, 294-95. See also sexism
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC; Wacs), 170, 180, 182-83, 185,188, 242-43
Women’s National Press Club, 393
Woolf, Padre, 164-65
Woollcott, Alexander, 129
Wrens (Navy), 128, 195
Yugoslavia, 63
Zog, King, 63-64