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These home plots were planted by women to extend grocery food rations.
What are Victory Gardens?
Kids gathered stacks of this paper medium for regional recycling drives.
What are newspapers?
Many adult men left civic jobs to fill slots in this overseas fighting force.
What is the U.S. Military / Armed Forces?
Black women did "men's work" washing out ash pans on engines at this roundhouse.
What is the C. & E. I. Railroad?
Workers at Republic Aviation built this legendary fighter plane.
What is the P-47 Thunderbolt?
This fictional, bandana-wearing icon symbolized women working in heavy industry.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Children saved pocket change to buy these, later exchanging them for War Bonds.
What are Defense Stamps?
Men volunteered for night watches as these civic emergency lookouts.
What are air raid wardens?
This local facility offered Black servicemen safe housing, recreation, and job training.
What is the Lincoln USO Club?
The Chrysler Ordnance plant produced over 3 billion rounds of this asset.
What is ammunition / bullets?
Hundreds of women volunteered at this local depot to feed passing troops.
What is the Evansville Red Cross Canteen?
School children hunted down old tires to salvage this stretchy material.
What is rubber?
Local engineers redesigned everyday commercial facilities into these assembly lines.
What are defense / military manufacturing plants?
Despite active hiring prejudice, Black laborers broke barriers welding at this shipyard.
What is the Evansville Shipyard?
Workers built 165 of these massive, tank-hauling naval vessels along the river.
What are LSTs (Landing Ship, Tanks)?
This global organization trained local women to roll sterile emergency bandages.
What is the American Red Cross?
These uniform-wearing youth organizations spearheaded metal drives.
What are the Boy Scouts / Girl Scouts?
Experienced tradesmen worked overtime to manage these multi-hour industrial schedules.
What are 24-hour / around-the-clock factory shifts?
She organized the local Colored Women's Work Committee to sell war bonds.
Who is Sallie Wyatt Stewart?
More than this many local factories completely re-tooled for military contracts.
What is 80 industrial plants?
Women took up heavy torches to learn this bright, metal-fusing industrial craft.
What is welding?
Kitchen scrap projects had kids salvaging this specific metal from food cans.
What is tin?
Industrial leaders modified manufacturing goals to supply what specific federal buyer?
What is the U.S. War Department / Government?
Black workers trained for specialized defense jobs through programs hosted where?
What is the Lincoln USO vocational programs?
This was the peak number of defense laborers working at the local shipyard.
What is 19,000 workers?