Valiant Women with Lena Andrews

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Sharon is joined by CIA military analyst, WWII expert, and debut author, Lena Andrews, to unveil the scale and scope of what women in uniform contributed during WWII. Over 350,000 American women served in uniform during the war, in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. This ranged from critical support roles of flying planes across the country, drawing maps to help men get through Normandy, codebreaking, and building & maintaining the behind-the-scenes infrastructural work that made the heroics possible. If you loved our “How Women Won WWII” series, today’s episode will be a treat of untold history.

Host/Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Guest: Lena Andrews

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome. Delighted to have you joining me today because we are talking
0:09.1	about one of my favorite things, which is how women won World War II. Of course, wasn't
0:16.0	women alone, we all know that, you know, there were men around. They lent a hand. No,
0:23.5	of course I'm kidding. But my guest today is author Lena Andrews, who has written a book
0:28.8	called Valiant Women, which if you list or previous how women won World War II series, you are
0:34.6	going to love this book. And I think you're going to love this conversation. Lena is fantastic. So
0:40.3	let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon. And here's where it gets interesting. I am very excited to be
0:48.9	chatting about the book Valiant Women with Lena Andrews today. Thank you so much for being here.
0:53.9	Thank you. I'm so pleased to be here. I was really excited to see your book come out because this
0:57.9	is a topic that interests me greatly. I have produced a number of podcast episodes and series
1:05.2	on this topic. And I just can't get enough. It's one of those things where it's like if I could
1:09.4	make 25 more episodes about it, I would. So I know so many people listening to this are going to
1:14.8	be very, very interested in what you have to say today. So welcome. Thank you for your time. And
1:20.6	I would love to have you give us just a little bit of an overview about what this book is about
1:26.0	and how you even became interested in this topic. Well, it's one of my favorite questions. So thank
1:32.3	you for asking it. Thank you for having me here. I've listened to many of your podcasts on this
1:36.5	very topic. So thank you for taking an interest in it. You know, I think so few people
1:41.8	sort of understand the scope and magnitude. And you've done a lot of really great work to
1:45.6	bring that to your listener. So I'm delighted to be here. It's all awesome. So I think as you probably
1:51.4	know, and many of your listeners already know, we all know about Rosie the River. But I think
1:57.1	what's most interesting to me is that I'm considering myself a World War II experts. I have
2:01.7	a background in World War II. I haven't studied it for a decade or more. And even someone like me was
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