Synopsis
Women in the wartime Coast Guard.
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Details
- Running time
- 5 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- World War II: Coast Guard
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Help Smash the Axis by Being a File Clerk! · Christine Hennig · 2004-01-07
This WWII recruitment film for the Coast Guard SPARS program (the Guards womens auxiliary) is full of sexist stereotypes and thus is quite campy. The film tells us that by becoming a SPAR, you take over a mans job so he can go to sea and blast Axis submarines. The vast majority of the jobs shown take place in offices and involve typewriters, filing cabinets, and huge rolodexes. If you dont care to work in an office, though, you could dress minor wounds in the dispensary or work in the storeroom! No, you wont become an admiral, but you could be the admirals secretary, is an actual quote from…
Funny lines! · bestpbx · 2008-05-30
The narrator promises us gals that we will "learn the language of the sea..." Maybe this is why so many gals can cuss like sailors! Their mamas were SPARS!