By the end of World War II, more than 19 million women were in the workforce and 350,000 women had served in the US Armed Forces.

The war effort demanded developments in the field of science and technology, developments that forever changed life in America and made present-day technology possible.

With ever-growing orders for war materials combined with so many men overseas fighting the war, women were called upon to work in ways previously reserved only for men.

Aboard the iconic Sea Cloud Featuring Robert M. Citino, PhD

The all-new land-and-cruise tour Philosophy and War: World War II in the Balkans begins with two nights in Athens to explore the German occupation of Greece and the civil war that followed.