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The Real Rosie the Riveter and Other Lesser Known Iconic WWII Facts and Figures

Khalid Elhassan April 15, 2024 31 min
WWII - Norman Rockewell's Rosie The Riveter
Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter. Amazon

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Where Did We Find This Stuff? Some Sources and Further Reading

Atkinson, Rick – The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (2007)

BBC – How Churchill Starved India

Bird, William L. – Design for Victory: World War II Posters on the American Home Front (1998)

Bloch, Marc Leopold Benjamin – Strange Defeat (1968)

Boyne, Walter J. – Clash of Wings: Air Power in World War II (1994)

Christofferson, Thomas Randy and Michael Scott – France During World War II: From Defeat to Liberation (2006)

Clark, Alan – Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45 (1965)

Cracked – 4 Icons of World War II That are Big Ol’ Lies

Forty, George – German Tanks of World War Two (1988)

History Collection – 10 Anti-Japanese Propaganda Films From WWII Filled With Racist Messages

King, Benjamin, and Kutta, Timothy – Impact: The History of Germany’s V-Weapons in WWII (1998)

Mukerjee, Mudhursee – Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II (2011)

New Scientist, September 3rd, 2014 – Myths and Realities of the Nazi Space Rocket

New York Times, March 4th, 2020 – Rosalind P. Walter, 95, First ‘Rosie the Riveter’ and a PBS Funder, Dies

Parshall, Jonathan B., and Tully, Anthony P. – Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (2005)

Prange, Gordon William – Miracle at Midway (1982)

Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter 2006) – Visual Rhetoric Representing Rosie the Riveter: Myth and Misconception in J. Howard Miller’s “We Can Do It!” Poster

Robert, Geoffrey – Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle that Changed History (2008)

Roberts, Walter R. – Tito, Mihailovic, and the Allies 1941-1945 ­(1987)

Smith, Peter – The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka: A Complete History (2011)

Tank Encyclopedia – Panzer VIII Maus

Task Force Baum – The Hammelburg Raid

UK National Archives – Operation Unthinkable

Walker, Jonathan – Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire, 1945 (2013)

Written by
Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.

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