Shorpy Home Front Photographs-- Part 3: Women Drivers

JAN. 12, 2014--  CORPORAL KINK: 1942--  August 1942 Fort Belvoir, Virginia.  "Soldiers using a barbed wire anchor spike to screw in a picket.  He is wearing special gloves that are made for handling barbed wire."  By Howard Lieberman, OWI.  Comment that he is wearing a World War I helmet and carrying a Springfield '03 rifle.

JAN. 12, 2014--  DRIVER 469--  November 1942.  Salt Lake City, Utah.  "Women training to operate buses and taxicabs."  By Andreas Feininger, OWI.  To replace the men who were off in service.

JAN. 9, 2014--  ENGAUGED: 1942--  September 1942. "Washington, D.C. Conversion of the Shoreham Hotel furnaces from oil to coal burning system."  By Howard Lieberman, OWI  This helped conserve oil for the war effort.

--GreGen