Common narratives about the U.S. role in World War II tend to concentrate on how men and women united behind the common cause of defeating the Nazis. But at times, the American women who served could feel as if the men were at war with them.
Women who served as pilots during the war say that some of their colleagues could end up grounded because they'd have trouble starting their engines, only to discover sugar or other material had been put in them.
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