1. Total war was a concept borne out of World War I and made popular by Italian war theorist Giulio Douhet who argued that women working in factories to produce war materiel were just as critical to victory as boots in the trenches. See, David M. Kennedy,The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear Part II(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999): 177.
2. Donna B. Knaff,Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women of World War II in American Popular Graphic Art(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2012), 2.
3. Russell Keaton,The Aviation Art of Russell Keaton(Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1995), 17.
4. Susan Ware,Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism(New York: W W Norton & Co., 1993), 202.