Ruby Bradley's Role In Ww2

America joined the war in 1941, many people help win WWII including the woman. There were many important woman associated with the war. One important woman was a nurse named Ruby Bradley. She spent more than three years as a prisoner of war (Hedges, 2002). While Ruby was a prisoner she helped in more than 230 major surgeries and delivered 13 American babies (Hedges, 2002). When American troops liberated the camp in 1945, Bradley only weighed 86 pounds because she would give her food away to the children (Hedges, 2002). Bradley was one of the most decorated women in U.S. military history with earning 34 medals (Hedges, 2002). Ruby Bradley was the nation’s most decorated female veteran who saved many lives and had a great impact on the war. Another important woman in World War II is Faye Schulman. She helped show the perspective of a hidden life living in the woods with partisans fighting the Nazis. After Faye Schulman’s family was killed by the Nazis, she ran away to the woods where she found the Partisans (Palevsky, 2009). When there, she help give them medical care and also took pictures to document what was happening. Schulman is the only known Jewish partisan photographer to capture life in the forest

The men had to leave there jobs, but who would replace them? Many women stepped in and took over many of the jobs. Many of the jobs were traditionally done by men only because they were dirty or difficult for woman. Jobs such as bus conductors, volunteer policewomen and working with dangerous chemicals in factories (History.com Staff, 2010). Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased by 10 percent (History.com Staff, 2010). By 1945 almost one out of every four married women worked outside the home (History.com Staff, 2010). They did so much to help out back home, without them nothing would have gotten done and America would have been in big