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This clipping, published in the Kansas City Times, shows Edna Allen. Allen, a farmer's daughter from Halstead, Kansas, served as an inspector at the Cessna Aircraft Company Plant during World War II.
Creator: Kansas City Times
Date: July 22, 1942
This article can be used to help students appreciate the work done by women during World War II as they worked in the U.S. aviation industry. More importantly, this article can be used to show students that women, who made up 60 percent of the workforce, were vital to the U.S. war effort during World War II.
KS: 11th: 2.4.: understands the role of Kansas aviation companies in World War II
Item Number: 213779
Call Number: K 629.13, vol. 3, Aviation Clippings
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213779
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production - Cessna
Collections - Library
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1930-1945 (Kansas_Benchmark 2) - Aviation companies in World War II (Indicator 4)
Date - 1940s - 1942
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
Places - Cities and towns - Halstead
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Harvey
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Transportation - Air Travel - Military
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
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