Beyond the Story: American Women During World War II

This powerful nonfiction video explores the role of American women during World War II. The video provides historical context, builds knowledge, and highlights key vocabulary to help your students understand our play, When Girls Ruled Baseball. scope.scholasti...

[@thecat-alyst8122]

I'm lucky enough to be friends with a woman who is still alive today who worked at a boeing factory during World War II. She always said that she did enjoy her job, but cooking was always her forte. About half a year after the war ended, she would come up with the famous Perkins pancake recipe that her nephews who founded the Perkins restaurant would use. Currently, she is still alive and owns all rights to the recipe. Though she isn't actually my grandma, we nickname her "Grandma Mitsey" because she has small hands. Chasity Perkins, we all love you so much, and hope that you keep on living. 103 years is a long time, but I know that there's still more in you. You did an amazing job during war times and you do an amazing job enspiring us younger generations, both men like myself and women like my sister. I'm glad I got to become your friend Grandma Mitsey. thanks.

[@jrh7178]

Respect. 100% respect. Without women we couldve not won WW2

[@legoyoda.gaming]

Sure

[@legoyoda.gaming]

Uh huh

[@anwjuice]

Respect to women but lmao america would of just opened borders to get people to come in and pay them

[@qudsianajeeb5165]

I bet women would win a war against men if we got the same stuff men get to use.

[@dinuxplay8003]

@@qudsianajeeb5165 nah not really

[@KrazyX777]

We couldn't have done it without you ladies! Thank you.

[@hopeyourdoinggood7862]

Who’s watching this because of online learning

[@iloveanime2256]

me

[@mikeroyale4842]

Me

[@aileenmedina4198]

Ella Claros duh, who watched this for fun 😂😂

[@fartmcnugg8758]

me lmao

[@Thouxanbancj]

me

[@husk1942]

Big respect. Also the female medics in World wars, keeping them soldiers together with all they could

[@rrtodd95]

There was no female medics. The only women over seas were nurses or support roles.

[@john1cheree]

my mom was one them in the army corp of nursing. She finally cracked from seeing all the broken service men and woman coming home, And her husband was a pow in Germany at the same time. He was shot down on a bombing run.

[@hispanicchad8393]

Damn, I'm sure your dad was the best of the best in the war. Sorry for you and your mom's loss even if you maybe weren't alive back then

[@youssefghazy3479]

Thats cap he is doing it for the likes

[@ditixonsplayerx9319]

@@youssefghazy3479 Shut up, kid. Do u know huh? and it may be she/he it can be either so shut up.next time put she/he kid u lost ur nogen LOL

[@ditixonsplayerx9319]

@@hispanicchad8393 Yeah sorry for your lost.

[@verysadhedgehog6958]

Why tf am I crying after watching this lol kinda sad but really inspiring

[@adamh.5855]

Its the sad background music and the inspiration of the women and men who fought and gave their lives for freedom and the safety of our homeland

[@7jason]

Shut up feminist

[@hopeyourdoinggood7862]

RUDE!!!!!

[@bombchuuuu]

Jason L. Did she text you back?

[@kalianigisellemonroe9668]

I found myself crying while watching this as well. women do not get nearly enough credit as we deserve. we will continue to fight the good fight for ourselves and our loved ones no matter what! so proud! ❤️

[@oliviadressler7417]

During WW2 my mother was a teletype operator at The Netherland Hilton located in Cincinnati, Ohio sending notices to families about their loved ones in the war. That is where she met my father who had been a Master Sergeant a marksmen sharpshooter bugler and an office worker in Florida caring for the men who had just come back from that dreaded war.

[@SOAD4ever47]

I'm a simple man, I see a woman with vintage hair and clothes, I fall in love. Great video, but I was expecting their roles in the actual war.

[@nobody9126]

Yeah same

[@MrWhatIfYTC]

They could be your great grandmother

[@PacoFranco-ChanUwU]

There were not women in the front. Just in the USSR, Third Reich, Norway, Chinese unificated front and Hungary.

[@MrWhatIfYTC]

@@PacoFranco-ChanUwU cool story bro, but I don't remember askin

[@PacoFranco-ChanUwU]

@@MrWhatIfYTC I wasn't telling it to you either but to OP, dumbass

[@australienski6687]

I was expecting to see women with prosthetic arms actually shooting guns on the front line, to show me how wrong I was about Battlefield V.

[@philipschoen7446]

Yep that's I didn't buy btf5

[@stevenpancake3385]

@@philipschoen7446 wtf, you didn't buy bf5 just because they had woman -_-

[@acekiller2690]

Only men fight the war but at lest it was us fighting

[@mikayla-jm9ub]

I’m using this to learn about WWII for my project, this really helped. Thank you so much!

[@whateve3r]

You could speak about the Night Witches! Those women were incredible during WW2

[@SunilSingh-sg7hr]

We can't win without the women

[@thatweirdlesbo8262]

Sunil Singh one body can

[@vuilnisgod4388]

Jorge Hernandez I get it lol.

[@vuilnisgod4388]

>implying we won because of women Kek

[@dieglhix]

you gotta see World War 3 trailer

[@Ethan-ck2ld]

men won the war by dieing

[@ornos3133]

We’re still waiting for another hidden figures style of film for history good history. To be honest I would like it to be in a broad global scope so it has to be either a docu-drama or an anthology series, both of which gives opportunities of exploring interesting details that one film may need to neglect in order to fit it under 2 hours.

[@cherryblossomtree44]

I agree!

[@ColonelFrontline1152]

Axis Power Defeated By Women who worked in the factories. You Go Girls

[@carlossandoval4030]

Colonel Frontline what the fuck are you talking about woman dint do dAnGeRoUs jobs you calling war jobs dangerous its men who defeated the axis. Woman dint go out in the battlefield get shot go to trenches were you can catch sickness see rats they helped out or were disguised as men. So plz delete your fucking coment i already know people are going to call me sexist

[@PacoFranco-ChanUwU]

Well, in the Third Reich there were actual women who fought in combat, both in the front with guns (extremely few) and in the aerial war. Hanna Reitsch is the most famous one, as she also tested the aircraft and was the first woman (and person) to ride the prototype of an helicopter, she also had a first class iron cross.

[@porkquad]

Carlos Sandoval ok. You’re sexist.

[@andrewelam4124]

@@carlossandoval4030 You do seem kinda sexist because you got so worked up over this. True, women only fought on the front lines in the USSR, but it's a fact that the allied victory came largely due to women stepping up in the work force.

[@charlottejackson7690]

Great job simple and easy to understand

[@nirosikkema3443]

I am so proud of them👍

[@bokvarv1926]

Now I know this is about women during ww2, but during ww1 women worked as well, and a small fun fact is that one big factor leading to germany's defeat was the lack of women in industry compared to france and britain at the time

[@carlossandoval4030]

Bo Kvarv sure buddy

[@bokvarv1926]

@Horatio Nelson That is true, however what does this have to do with about the comment, it was about how the germans in ww and to some extent in ww2 did not use female workers as much as other countries and as such they were according to the experts at a disadvantage. And while they did produce a lot of armaments in the later stages of the wars, these were due to the sittuation actually more defects than not.

[@bokvarv1926]

@Horatio Nelson in ww1 this was a significant factor. as to ww2 and germany this was still a factor, though in ww2 less important by itself. And yes they used slave labor, however becuse this was slave labor, most of this was for contruction while until around 44/45 most munitions was actually produced by paid workers. in 44/45 this changed and the need for prisoners to manufacture this came to light. however we do see that the quality of this munition was at best ...."meh"

[@ousbruin]

Good narrated with stunning clips.

[@YuJa06]

What’s the old music named? I’m trying to get classic music for my grandpa

[@kapuzenfigur9288]

Probably fallout music

[@ledryer5621]

i came here because of the bf v trailer

[@oxic1328]

IDeeKeYYY Same I wanted to know if women really fought in world war II

[@GW24lyfebro]

Same. I actually realized I didn't know much about the role women played in WWII

[@koichidignitythief7429]

There are actually people trying to put the spin that American and Commonwealth women fought alongside men just because they were given military training, but fail to even acknowledge their actual roles and how many actually died in combat. At best they were medics right outside the front line or were agents performing espoinage behind enemy lines.

[@jerryherry6682]

same, i dont want to look like idiot in an argument

[@politicalgamer9936]

I dont think battlefield advertised themselves as "%100 historically accurate"

[@RollingEasy]

Good on you Girls.... Every single one of you. Why on earth would you ever want to be equal with Men when even we know that you stand taller than most of us, most times? I would not be who I am today had it not been for all of the wonderful women in my life. Not even 10%.

[@pllskip961]

Simp

[@RollingEasy]

@@Nicole-iu9qs Thanks Nicole.... I'm sure you're a real fine lady.. Like these women were here one time as well.

[@pllskip961]

@@Nicole-iu9qs how lmao read wha he said to you now that is a simp

[@alliemazur8007]

Wow, that is very wonderful of you to say. There aren’t enough men like you

[@pb9400]

Major SIMP OVERLOAD!

[@AngelaBuyck]

America sure showed it's gratitude (sarcasm)

[@justinem4117]

Ikr! Like, what the hell? We worked our butts off during WW11(well I didn't lol, I'm Canadian and like not alive back then) but, America owes women a debt of gratitude for ww11! But instead we get slashed pay, uneven treatment, overtly sexist assholes, and the like........smh 🤦‍♀️😣

[@benorthodox3541]

@@justinem4117 Ermm... slashed pay? Uneven treatment? What world are you living in?

[@rocitelon2600]

@@justinem4117 while women were at home washing real soldiers uniforms, men were out there fighting your war. Shut the fuck up and know your place, dishwasher

[@-xnnybimb-9398]

Roci Telon lmao. Hate sexism but sometimes you gotta battle annoying feminist with it

[@-xnnybimb-9398]

Justine M I mean you didn’t hav eto run through barbed wire, get your eye shot out, run straight into your deaths, get bombed and etc...

[@iamaidansmith7542]

My great grandfather was drafted as one of the mechanics on airplanes during ww2

[@mackmyles9034]

These women did more than modern feminists that claim to do so much good these women were ok even though they knew they were paid less because they knew they made a difference

[@kristennicole218]

Knowing that you're making a difference doesn't make unequal pay ethical

[@xxIluvyouguysxx]

At least feminists know how to use punctuation.

[@kingXplayer]

@@xxIluvyouguysxx lol

[@memekingdom8973]

and back then it actually was true

[@sofiabravo1994]

xxIluvyouguysxx Actually not many use proper punctuation, they’re so triggered they ramble on and on.

[@bobjacobson858]

I'll readily admit that the comment that the women earned less than the men while doing precisely the same job irritated me, but fortunately this has changed over the past 80 years.

[@jkwright1]

The video would be more effective if it did not ignore the minority women (black, Latino, and Asian) that either participated in the war effort or were impacted by the war. See "Invisible Warriors" film as an example.

[@MsAngelique]

No need to play the muh representation game.

[@shakespearaamina9117]

Brilliant!

[@luckylosers2601]

does anyone know the absolute bop in the background?

[@fluxmuldar]

2:46 You hear that EA?? NON-COMBAT ROLES.

[@timecrashv5wu709]

Karen's in 1944: Listen up women! our boys is in the war! we need to cook and clean for them! understand?! Karen's nowaday: lemme speek to ur manager

[@asillariya601]

Lady Goes up to Army recruiter. Recruiter: May I help you ma'am? Lady: No, but maybe I can help you in this war if you let me inlist Recruiter: Very funny ma'am. Now go back home. Your kids probably need you. Lady: No, I'm serious. I WANT TO ENLIST! Recruiter: Fine, keep your voice down. here. *Gives her a card.* Lady reads the card and looks back at the recruiter in anger: Really?! An assistant nurse?! Recruiter: Yeah, what other position did you expect to get? Lady: I don't know, maybe the frontlines?! Recruiter Laughs: You're hilarious! Now get moving.

[@legoyoda.gaming]

Bruh not funny didn't laugh

[@asillariya601]

@@legoyoda.gaming ok. You don't have to find it funny.

[@legoyoda.gaming]

@@asillariya601 just saying it's not funny

[@asillariya601]

@@legoyoda.gaming I know. You yourself don't have to find it funny.

[@mutazalsomali3151]

These lady's are the real feminists.

[@sharpaycutie2]

I'd prefer no feminists.

[@isabelbrown8185]

They’re not feminists they just wanna save there fucking children and family’s lives

[@gladiatortoast4599]

Aidan Koliopoulos can’t win a war without food or supplies

[@pllskip961]

@@isabelbrown8185 no they are feminists.

[@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385]

@@pllskip961 todays feminist want to destroy amriaca

[@mokarakapomare8847]

I LOVE THIS

[@OGhistorian]

Beautiful

[@raquelslemons6846]

GOOOOO WOOMMMMEENNNNN

[@tristanbaron5363]

right on

[@jojoheavy5439]

.in my school we have 4 CHAPTERS OF THIS 4 CHAPTERS BUT 2 ABOUT WW2

[@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385]

Woman looked alot better here then today

[@OGhistorian]

Maybe bc it was in black n white,u guys missed the black and asain women that WERE featured here.. Im usually pointing out the same,but i definitely seen some minority warriors in this clip

[@hankaustin7091]

what?? a person would have to be BLIND to miss those women... are you purposely trolling this channel? get lost!

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

My grandmother was a WAAC🇺🇸💕

[@ja-no6fx]

Why were the special units of women in the military not trained to fight?

[@JayzxsYT]

I Lowkey started forgetting to answer my questions cause I got interested

[@anwjuice]

With a due respect to women, they sure did help and did their part but there was men here in the factories too. Boys to young to enlist or men that are to old to fight..WW2 cost millions of lives but the bright lining is civil rights and women rights went a long ways because of the time women put in back home and black troops helping white troops brought race relations a long ways. Before ww2 women having jobs was looked down on because women were just granted power in 1920. Before they couldn't buy land,go to school or anything

[@coletonurquhart8354]

Hi Medlocks class 👋

[@fargotech9818]

who from ramapo tho?

[@carmendelgado105]

I love this! ♥️❤️✊🏼

[@prestonsmith4836]

Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you’re fine and staying safe..??

[@danielaramburo7648]

Please explain: if women were paid less than a male for the same job.... why fire them to then hire men, who are more expensive to pay?

[@Baldoxxx4000]

This is the American Dream, not we have feminist...

[@glblb3030]

cool

[@robertron5107]

At least great part. Like a pizza slice in HISTORICAL facts.....this is some of us ...Men!() BECAUSE of her.............

[@JagerBombaren]

online school anyone?

[@gbdeck200]

here from battlefield V still inaccurate there

[@yoholup19]

gbdeck200 there is another video on women who actually fought in ww2 look up "bad ass women in WW2" thank me later

[@jrh7178]

@@yoholup19 Aaaand all of those were Russians😂

[@yoholup19]

@@jrh7178 pretty much but allies traded troops and added troops from other countries

[@lilbrowniii5302]

my mum was not in the waRRRRRRRR

[@blazecraftworks8944]

1:31 I see they are using the Fallout music~

[@soulsnatchinjay3829]

i am

[@iamaidansmith7542]

Why weren’t women allowed to fight

[@AyeshaKhan-yd9ih]

Who is here from 303 8 th grade cuz social teacher told u to watch this video?

[@dipolararc4848]

Women rights is won, women and men are strong together

[@pllskip961]

no now women are trying to have "equal rights" lmao

[@pllskip961]

@The Game Garden yeah fr

[@paint4r]

See this is when we needed feminism but now women and men have the same fucking rights at least in america

[@idk9666]

This video reminds me of GIRL POWER!

[@spartane6bernard105]

0:46 Doesn't she looks like Eric Andre ?

[@AHumanBeingonEarth]

But that machine tho! What even is that?!

[@AHumanBeingonEarth]

Nevermind just found out: back then they used wringers, these squeezed the water out of the clothes

[@Merseysiderful]

2:31 Beautiful woman !

[@mdmmysocialmedia254]

Video Does Give Justice To Women's Under Appropriated Major Precious Contributions To Fighting For Liberty 🗽 At Home In U.S.A. and Around The World 🌎. Sincerely, FREE PRESS WITHOUT BORDERS

[@must205]

The Second World War... what to talk about? Yes, so many things to talk about! But let's talk about women... literally the human beings who suffered the least from any war.

[@zack1610]

These women right here are the real heroes. Yes they were strong and independent. Not these fake boss chic feminists of today

[@chmhershe5368]

💜🙏

[@onelusciouslad7841]

Lmao was that Fallout shelter music

[@atalyadurfield2031]

Anyone else here for school?

[@williamchamberlain2263]

2:18

[@MrWhatIfYTC]

2:46

[@johnsmith-lx8cb]

any one from clarks history class

[@Zaydamus]

Meee!!

[@johnsmith-lx8cb]

@@Zaydamus who are you

[@Danny-ru7uf]

lost track if i was watching a historical video or a women's movement one.

[@mishaladara]

🥀WWII

[@nowdid]

2:18 That photo is almost as striking as the Iwo Jima flag-raising photo

[@WhisperedSssreads]

No

[@verasmith4767]

The original latch key kids from the 40's.

[@rebel876_9]

I always wondered what women did in ww2

[@antonioricci5465]

So bf5 is lying about ww2

[@farhanrizkiahnafa7404]

NOPE. You just denied Norway campaign

[@antonioricci5465]

Farhan Rizki Ahnafa No, actually all the ski soldiers were men, dice just changed it to fit a political agenda.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Have a look at it in detail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4e8Xnx4f79sj5I

[@gimmyclo]

But were they on the front line? YEAHHH NAH bf5 you done fucked up!

[@alexa7845]

me

[@blairimani]

This lacks any consideration for Black women...who were always part of the workforce...*sigh*

[@sjsodbs]

I wish women were allowed to fight in the war

[@zank42]

first comment?

[@hevyc8353]

Zinky yup ur first to commet,im 3rd.hurraayyyy😐

[@john1cheree]

Answer me one damn question, ! what having to be a woman have anything to do with the pay discrepancy. Now that is discrimination! And it is screaming DISCRIMINATION.

[@5thfjreenactor602]

john1cheree the pay gap I think is a lie so there’s anser A

[@mattyice2889]

Triggered

[@carys1]

5th FJ Reenactor I don't know if the pay gap is fake nowadays, but it certainly was real during the 40s

[@ronaldcammarata3422]

@@5thfjreenactor602 You can "think" anything you want. But you'd be wrong.

[@IAMN0TKIARA]

For those who are complaining about women in Battlefield V.

[@Albino_Wolf]

Roberto Tellez You see them in the frontlines with a fake arm??? Exactly

[@kingdroopy2648]

The game is only loosely based on ww2 not fully accurate on purpose

[@sownheard]

yes woman where working in ww2 they helped allot but they where never put in direct confrontation And come on she was a disable woman doing no scopes with a prosthetic limbs in 194X

[@kingdroopy2648]

And no soldier was able to get shot and hide behind a wall for 3 seconds to regenerate his health. Its a damn video game get over it.

[@sownheard]

KING DROOPY Your right I'll just wait for the mods to fix the game Mods will probably find a way to swap her character model with a males And knowing EA they will probably have here story end after 1 mission XD

[@KrisLI1408]

Feminist at it's best.

[@ludomzl6079]

Sbeusbeub

[@lylehwong8786]

I worked in food service and in all the places I went the Male supervisor's Fiercely Protected the Female staff Why...?? Because they Got Shit Done!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@porkquad]

Carlos Sandoval white people are weird

[@acommentator69]

I call them Propaganda News

[@evas8583]

A Commentator this Actually happened

[@robertron5107]

ALL THIS IS THE CHURCH:.

[@MysteryPersona]

Kids can you say propoganda?!?!

[@5thfjreenactor602]

MysteryPersona propapanda?

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Can you say "Documented facts are only considered propaganda my those who have a prejudice which they won't renounce in the face of objective truth"?

[@sherrybosby7282]

i hate it

[@prestonsmith4836]

Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you’re fine and staying safe..??

[@Max-lk6yi]

Meh

[@DayBowBow]

This is so inaccurate, and such a sexist video. COD and battlefield has shown us all women went overseas to fight alongside the men. And actually were more badass than men.

[@davidputland5506]

“Women are paid less than men for doing the exact same job” but did they actually do as good of a job? Nah let’s not kid ourselves people

[@mimiwey]

David Putland ok david

[@xXFlowXx31]

BF 5 Trailer Got Me HERE

[@dwightturner3070]

Women...You can't live with them, you can't bury them in the back yard.