Women like these would soon replace draftees and enlistees on the assembly lines in Hamtramck, Willow Run and other vast plants in Motown, producing the trucks, tanks, engines, planes, and other weapons that ultimately overwhelmed the Axis. For this, they were briefly thanked, and laid off based on their gender to allow returning soldiers to take their "rightful" places in factories converted back to civilian vehicles.

was also a movie based on a 1963 novel by Mary McCarthy. As with all of us when we are young ... we have our whole life out there in front of us, and absolutely no idea what's going to happen.