Home front is an English language term with analogues in other languages. It is commonly used to describe the civilian populace of the nation at war as an active support system for their military.
The "We Can Do It!" poster was widely seen on the United States home front during World War II; it became popular in the 1980s. Today, it is often associated with the cultural icon Rosie the Riveter, although it does not actually depict her.
"I am a good war hen, I eat little and produce a lot." French poster from World War I.
Women at work in the machine shop of the Handley Page aircraft factory at Cricklewood, London (1942).
Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in the factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war s
Home front
…widely seen on the United States home front during World War II; it became popular in the 1980s. Today, it is often associated with the cultural icon Rosie the Riveter, although it does not actually depict her. "I am a good war hen, I eat little and produce a lot." French poster from World War I. Home front is an…
A "Rosie" putting rivets on an Vultee A-31 Vengeance in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1943
Women workers in the ordnance shops of Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company in Nicetown, Pennsylvania, during World War I, 1918
A woman operating a turret lathe, 1942
A man and woman riveting team in 1942 working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 aircraft at the plant of North American Aviation