Full name: Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory

Authors: Constance Bowman Reid, Clara Marie Allen Year: 1944 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781560983682 156098368X

In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live with aluminum shavings in their hair, and get along with supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life.         They also learned that wearing their factory slacks on the street caused men to treat them in a way for which their "dignified schoolteacher-hood" hadn't prepared them. At times charming, hilarious, and incredibly perceptive, Slacks and Calluses brings into focus an overlooked part of the war effort, one that forever changed the way the women were viewed in America. Similar books: Our Mothers' War by Emily Yellin Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart All the Way to Berlin by James Megellas Baa Baa Black Sheep by Gregory Pappy Boyington Soldat by Siegfried Knappe Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman The Women Who Lived for Danger by Marcus Binney Easy Company Soldier by Don Malarkey Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy My War by Andy Rooney The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters American Sniper by Chris Kyle No Easy Day by Mark Owen The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman Auschwitz by Miklos Nyiszli A Woman in Berlin by Marta Hillers