25 Survival Skills WWII Women Used to Hold the Home Front Together That Nobody Teaches Anymore

25 Survival Skills WWII Women Used to Hold the Home Front Together That Nobody Teaches Anymore If this is the kind of knowledge you want kept alive, subscribe, because we bring one of these back from the edge every single week! In 1943, with sixteen million American men gone to war, the entire country was held together by the women they left behind. Within a single generation, almost everything those women knew was quietly forgotten. This video brings it back. We count down 25 survival skills WWII women used to hold the home front together: stretching a ration into full meals, growing and preserving a year of food, making soap and candles when the shelves ran bare, nursing the family through illness, and running an entire household alone. Most of them still work, and every one is something almost no adult can do today. But the real lesson isn't any single skill. It's the staggering competence these women had, and why we were taught to forget how powerful they were. Tell us in the comments which skill surprised you most. Your great-grandparents knew. Now you know, too. #ForgottenHistory #WWII #SelfReliance #Homemaking #SurvivalSkills