The United States Army Nurse Corps (NC) was formally established by the U.S. Congress in 1901. It is one of the six medical Special Branches (or "Corps") of officers which – along with medical enlisted soldiers – comprise the Army Medical Department (AMEDD).
“Women of Four Wars,” a new online presentation accessible on the Veterans History Project Web site, is a call to action for volunteer interviewers to record the stories of America’s female wartime veterans. “Thanks to volunteers nationwide, the Library of Congress has preserved the recollections of more than 55,000 veterans,” said Bob Patrick, director of the Veterans History Project. “Yet, fewer than 4,000 of those interviews are from women. We need more personal accounts from female veterans, and we need the American public to record them.”
Approximately two to five thousand women, North and South served as volunteer nurses during the Civil War. These brave women choose an actively supportive role in the war effort thus opening a career door to women that was formerly reserved to males. They experienced the grim results of war, mutilated bodies, amputated limbs, disease and death. There were more than 620,000 deaths and ten million cases of illness during the war. Through their sacrifices they provided invaluable aid to everyone they touched.
"You have given your boys to die for their country;
now you can give your girls to nurse them."
(Nurse Mary Stinebaugh to her father in 1863)
Some historians believe that somewhere between 3,000 and 8,000 women volunteered their services as nurses throughout the duration of the Civil War, the majority of them being from northern states. However, such an estimate is questionable due to the fact that several nurses, upon receiving appointments, refused to have their names recorded in the official books. Mrs. M. J. Boston once said to the surgeon she was working under, "I do not want any pay for my services.
I only try to do all I can for the soldiers." Other women who made similar decisions found it even more difficult to collect pensions later in their lives. With the lack of documentation, it is nearly impossible to claim the exact number of women who performed duty as nurses.
Yet, we do know that their work was greatly appreciated by the men they cared for. John G. B. Adams, once the National Commander of the G.A.R., expressed that the memory of these nurses "will ever live in the hearts of the veterans they nursed with such tender care."
In 1901 and 1908 the establishment of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps opened the door for women in the military but ever so slightly. It wasn't until the United States got involved in World War One that some parts of the government got serious about using woman power.
Many of the women who served in these wars—nurses in hospitals and on hospital ships—saw the results of combat and exposure to unforgiving climates reflected in their patients.
And sense Vietnam,
The armed forces of the U.S. opened up many specialties to women. Although women are still restricted from combat, the nature of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, with blurred lines of engagement, have placed more servicewomen in harm’s way.
1941 - In 1941, Frissell volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross.
Toni Frissell, or Antoinette Frissell Bacon, (March 10, 1907 - April 17, 1988) was an American photographer, known for her fashion photography, World War II photographs, portraits of famous Americans and Europeans, children, and women from all walks of life.
World War II
In 1941, Frissell volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross. Later she worked for the Eighth Army Air Force and became the official photographer of the Women's Army Corps. On their behalf, she took thousands of images of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, African-American airmen, and orphaned children. She traveled to the European front twice. Her moving photographs of military women and African American fighter pilots in the elite 332d Fighter Group (the "Tuskegee Airmen") were used to encourage public support for women and African Americans in the military.
While the Nurse Corps was founded in 1901 as a component of the army, women have served as nurses and care-givers in American conflicts from the colonial period on. By World War II, the Army Nurse Corps was poised to take on increasing responsibilities. With fewer than 1,000 nurses on December 7, 1941, more than 59,000 nurses would serve before the war ended. Because of an acute shortage of nurses, a plan was developed to meet the demand through a draft. However, the war ended before this plan was implemented. Nurses served throughout the world, in all theaters, on land, sea, and air, and under combat conditions. Among those captured when US forces surrendered in the Philippines were 67 nurses. These nurses were liberated in February 1945. Sixteen nurses died as a result of hostile fire. Four nurses were awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry under fire at Anzio; one award was posthumous. During World War II only females could serve in the Army Nurse Corps. An early quota limiting the number of African American women who could serve as nurses was eliminated, but these nurses faced discrimination until segregation in the military services was ended by President Truman's Executive Order in 1948. Although nurses were in the army, their status was not equal to those of male officers. The inequities of rank remaining were removed with the passage of the Army-Navy Nurses' Act of 1947 (Public Law 36) allowing nurses to become part of the Regular Army.
1942 - This service cap was specifically designed for the Army Nurse Corps in 1942. Known at the time as the "new service cap," it was made of different types of materials to match either the winter olive drab, summer beige or dress white uniforms.
1942 - Here are the statistics in this area: More than 100 military nurses were captured when Bataan and Corregidor fell to the Japanese in 1942. Sixty-six Army Nurses and eleven Navy Nurses remained in a Japanese concentration camp for 37 months, more than three ...
In reclaiming women's history, their contribution during World War II is frequently overlooked. Here are the statistics in this area: More than 100 military nurses were captured when Bataan and Corregidor fell to the Japanese in 1942. Sixty-six Army Nurses and eleven Navy Nurses remained in a Japanese concentration camp for 37 months, more than three years! Sixteen hundred Army Nurses and 565 WACS received combat decorations, including the Distinguished Service Medals, Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, Air Medals, Legions of Merit, Commendation Medals, and Purple Hearts.
During the battle on Anzio, six Army Nurses were killed by German bombing, strafing and shelling of the tented hospital area. Four Army Nurses among the survivors were awarded Silver Stars for extraordinary courage under fire. In all, more than 200 Army Nurses lost their lives during World War II. Seventeen of those valiant women are buried in American cemeteries in foreign lands. -- Evelyn Kennedy.
1942 - It is set in the shelter used by a group of gallant female nurses and hospital volunteers caring for the wounded and constantly under artillery fire during the devastating siege of the Bataan Peninsula early in 1942. As is typical of the military plays of the ...
1942 - Women's Army Corps (WAC): The WACs was the Army version of the WAVES. Created in 1942, the WACs enlisted women for non-combat duties like nurses, cartography clerks, and secretaries. Almost 100000 had joined the WACs by the end of the war .
1942 - The pride in his family, which hails from the West End of Washington, actually dates back to World War II when the eldest of William H. and Octavia Gray Mellars' seven children, Florence Mellars McQuistion, joined the Women's Army Corps in 1942. WACs ...
1942 - In 1942, with World War II raging and one year left at Brooklyn College , Kaufman left and joined the Women's Army Corps (WAC), a special Army unit for female personnel. Kaufman was one of the first women, other than nurses, to serve. By the end of the war ...
May 1942 - The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WACs) began in May, 1942. Army nurses were the first women military Veterans. Over 6000 women nurses served alongside Dorothea Dix taking care of injured soldiers during the Civil War, but they did not receive pensions or other ...
May 14, 1942 - The women's branch of the US Army was officially created on May 14, 1942. Many women served as nurses and in other non-combat positions. Bea worked at a public job for the first time, just as many women did during WWII. She trimmed mica on Carson Cove with ...
May 15, 1942 - The Chief Nurse at Hickam Field, 1st Lt. Annie G. Fox, was the first of many Army nurses to receive a Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. The efforts of military nurses in Hawaii struck a chord with legislators in Washington. Finally on May 15, 1942, the ...
Jun 1942 - Since it opened in June, 1942, Camp Kilmer has received, processed and sent on their way approximately 2500000 officers, enlisted men, nurses and Wacs.
Nov 1942 - There were five major branches that women served in, including SPARS, WAVES, WASPS, WAACs, and WACs. The SPARS, (Semper Paratus " Always Prepared") were the women coast guard, created in November of 1942. Accepted on the same basis as male ...
Dec 12, 1942 - On 12 December 1942, British and US troops boarded Strathallan at Greenock-on- the-CIyde, Scotland, for transportation to North Africa. Among the 4656 troops embarking was a contingent of 248 nurses, including nurses of the US 1th field hospital, as ...
Jun 1943 - In addition to the women in the civilian labor force in June, 1943, there were 36000 nurses on duty with the armed forces and 100000 women who were WACs, WAVES , SPARs, Marines, and WAFS. During the next year, it is estimated that some 2 million ...
Jun 1943 - In addition to the WACs, a large number of Nisei women had volunteered for the US Cadet Nurse Corps , formed in June 1943. Lieutenant Colonel Mary Walker of the US Army Nurse Corps supervised the program in army hospitals and coordinated with other ...
Before World War II, training programs for Army nurses were few and were designed only to prepare nurses for clinical or functional assignments and not to provide military training. Indeed, between 1920, when they were granted relative rank as officers, and July 1944, when they received full commissions, nurses enjoyed only quasi-military status. Even membership in the Army's Reserve components, authorized for all other Medical Department corps, was denied them. Reasons offered for this peculiar arrangement in 1935 help to explain not only the absence of a Reserve corps for nurses, but also the quasi-military status of nurses and their lack of military training:
Jul 1943 - In July 1943, her Clubmobile helped serve another special group of American women, 557 members of the Women's Army Corps (WACs). WACs were first group of women to serve in the ranks of the US Army besides nurses and this contingent of 557 were ...
Jul 1, 1943 - TRADITIONAL BLUE UNIFORM of the Army nurse was out today replaced by the smart khaki out fits similar to that worn by the WACS In this photo Army nurses show the principal Items of the new Army nurse wardrobe From left to right we have argaret Sullivan in olive drab wool uniform ...
Jul 8, 1943 - There are American Army nurses, and British nurses, waafs wrens and ATS girls, and five differ-, kinds of French service girls in uniform. There the thrill of being in the midst of vital things Our WACS do about a dozen kinds of work here. It takes a couple of dozen to run their own ...
Jul 13, 1943 - Camp Abbot July 13 special Thirtysix Wacs arc assigned to duty at the station hospital the largest number to any one ty on the post They perform a ... and as hospital orderlies Those assigned as orderlies take turn at night duty as do nurses and enlisted men of the medical corps If ...
Jul 16, 1943 - easy task to fill the ranks of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps. Mrs. Bolton said, be cause of the competition of such other women's activities as the WACS. the WAVES, the SPARS and the marines. I believe we will reach our goal." she said. really have something to offer; ...
Jul 25, 1943 - ... ... of the American Red Cross an enthusiastic welcome when she flew there last week with 350 pounds of gifts and supplies ac companied by 4000 pounds of mail When I returned from Pantelleria at the end of June I immediately informed the Red Cross that the nurses of the station hospital ...
Aug 3, 1943 - The wacs WAVES, SPARS and the Marine Corps offer them opportunity for service and excitement. The Army Nurses Corps of fers opportunity for those with training along that line. Thus it becomes" not only a man's war but a woman's war, and we are confident that women will do their full ...
Aug 12, 1943 - There are only 70.000 nurses iraining and 107.000 addi tional nurses are needed Be tween now and next July an estimated 79.000 will be ... hats fighting men to wear into battle must have taxed their strength to keep them on straight While it is not argued that wacs should wear plumes ...
Aug 22, 1943 - Enlisted Army men and non commissioned officers in the North African complained that their only possible dates were wacs since Army nurses had little time for frolicking and Red Cross aides preferred to gaze at stars and bars as they danced. Both WAC spokesmen and Army men here doubted ...
Sep 1, 1943 - In addition to the unit of Pinellas county nurses leading the parade, there will be a section of wacs and WAVES as well as military bands from macdill field and the local maritime training station in foremost positions. macdill field. AH local veterans' organizations have pledged ...
Sep 5, 1943 - They are today armed with riveting guns, they are in Wac uniforms, they sit at the desks of yesterday's kings of commerce!" Archie," I answers him, "we need more women workers, more Wacs an' Waves an' Marines an' nurses an' all— they're helpin' th' soldiers an' sailors win the ...
Sep 15, 1943 - of heavy sterling silver with large plate for name and service serial number Plate opens to hold photo 12.50 plus tax. Canteen Brush and Comb Set of white com position Pore sterilized bristles in brush Streamlined handle A gift every woman will welcome 2.50 ...
Sep 15, 1943 - and personnel of the 233rd slation hospital at Stark General hospital will make up the cast of 70 performers which in cludes many professionals High lights promised are a ballet chorus of soldiers a magician a skit of life in the barracks a chorus of wacs and a chorus of nurses The ...
Sep 16, 1943 - whoever initiates such a change must assume the grave re sponsibility for ignoring the considered judgment of our military leaders arrived at after careful »nd prolonged studies," The .over-all army figure, he added, includes 190.000 nurses and wacs mcnarney agreed to give in a closed ...
Sep 24, 1943 - There are cards addressed to men in every branch of the service; to waves wacs Nurses. For those . ho like to add a touch of the patriotic, there are, among other things, a Jolly snowman gaily waving Old Glory, a red and white striped peppermint stick tied with a blue starred bow. and ...
Oct 4, 1943 - That's the advice offered by a recent government survey baseel on reports from returning wacs Other items wanted by nurses and wacs overseas include Family needs such as soap starch and clothespins Cosmetics gloves lingerie that can be easily laundered handkerchiefs tailored slips ...
Nov 1, 1943 - Eleven women alumni are now in service with representation in the nurses corps WAVES wacs and as dietitian. 18 Casualties Eighteen casualties have been Buffered by the college group since the beginning of the war These include Bruce Beat.
Nov 3, 1943 - San Jose will see something new on Thursday when the WACS march by threescore strong as an outstanding feature of the Armistice day parade ... a contingent of women in khaki has participated in armistice activities Of course there have been units of army nurses but they really rate as ...
Nov 6, 1943 - patient Her eyes clouded over and her rosy sobered to a serious line he's very ill she said ruptured appendix A trained nurse one of the ... said now I can tell you Brooks Yesterday I passed my physical and I'm in the WAVES I had planned to join the wacs but after I met you well were both ...
Nov 7, 1943 - There are also 11 women alumni helping to bring victory closer as nurses WAVES SPARS wacs or dietitians. Dr mcclure of First Presby terian church gave an inspiring in Tuesday's chapel He said that there must be a moralasis In any democracy and it is up to the young people of today o ...
Nov 11, 1943 - Here are the predecessors of to day's wacs WAVES and army nurses Mrs Oscar Hall of 609 Ribault avenue was one of the youngest American nurses at the front in 1918 when she was cited for gallantry under fire by Gen John Pershing She suffered from after Chateau Thierry but returned later ...
Nov 15, 1943 - Chief Chaplain for the European theatre of operations, says he does not think ? ne total will run over three per cent So far there have been nore;. on WACS or nurses marrying British men. Those who are smitten soon find out that getting married over here involves a great many problems ...
Nov 17, 1943 - The olive drab uniform of the WAC so different from their. nurses white impressed the children when the wacs first. arrived several months ago By now they firm. Army hospitals all over thecountry and some tocare for wounded. American boys in base hospitals from the Burmese jungles to ...
Nov 23, 1943 - CANAL COURSING Principal James Hightower is making with the quail shooting on offAlbert Blackburn has ambitions of bringing in a Turkey from the Myakka brush mistake our army nurses for wacs Marvin Zeigler buried out of sight beneath the automobiles piling up on the yard Dick Rich has ...
Nov 26, 1943 - finds its way into the heart of a needy child by Christmas Nothing in all the world pleases a little girl so much as a lovely doll all her own especially on Christmas Morn These dolls be dressed as Red Cross nurses WAVES wacs Red Riding Hoods Dutch girls mama dolls infant dolls or boy ...
Nov 29, 1943 - American women today have a mission beside beside side their men folks, a mission that has has been fulfilled grandly by thousands of of women in the WACS , the WAVES, the the e SPARS, by lady marines, by war nurses, nurses, urses, by women on the farms and on the industrial assembly ...
Dec 19, 1943 - Nurses arriving from the United States are wearing the new street uniform of olive drab, very similar to that of the wacs As rapidly as possible the Quartermaster corps is nurses already in this theater. But the small girls, those wearing sizes 12 and must wait until more ships get in. ...
Dec 24, 1943 - In Britain The need Is a new field uniform with plenty of pockets big ones In which the nurse can carry a shirt change of underwear tooth brush ... Is difficult Nurses arriving from the United States are wearing the new street uniform of olive drab very similar to that of the Wacs As ...
For the first three years of the camp's existence, Croft was staffed with only male military personnel, the only exception being nurses in the station hospital. In January 1944, a Women's Army Corps (WAC) detachment was organized and assigned to duties in the hospital, replacing men who had performed the same tasks. This first contingent of WACs served primarily as administrative and clerical staff, although at times they were assigned to duty in the hospital wards as nurse's aides as well as duties outside of the hospital. Less than four months later, on 8 APR 44, a second detachment was organized for administrative work in the IRTC headquarters. By November 1944, the IRTC detachment was disbanded only to be reorganized in March 1945 and remained in place until October after news was released that the camp would soon close. Aside from their efficient execution of numerous and varied tasks, a very important part of the WACs role was to replace able bodied men who were needed for overseas assignments. The women also staffed WAC recruiting booths in town, encouraging young Spartanburg women to join their ranks.
Jan 1944 - 46 "Give Us More Wacs . . . ," Records of the Program Manager for Homefront Campaigns. Nurses file, entry 84, box 569; "Waves Wanted." January 1944. Records of the Program Manager for the Recruitment of Women. Woman- power file, entry 90 , box 588.
Jan 9, 1944 - aide committee will be hostess with other members of the committee The corps has trained 38 classes of volunteer workers 30 of the young women having joined the WACS or WAVES and 10 have taken nurses training One thousand thirtysix nurses aides have completed their courses here.
Jan 24, 1944 - Only a healthy, on-the-job America can produce the weapons needed for victory Don' it wisely and well . OUR FEMININE FIGHTERS STAY FEMININE. They're nurses, WACS, WAVES, SPARS, Marines. But first and foremost— wherever the war may take them they'll always remain girls, dainty girls .
Jan 30, 1944 - The Marines aim at a total of 18000 and the Spars 12000 The recruiting goal for army nurses is 2.000 a month; for navy nurses, 600 a month, at least until June. Recruiting has been stubbornly slow, and in some services, especially the WAC, far below estimates. ...
Mar 8, 1944 - ... ... —lie has also learned to jitterbug and rhumba. Enlisted men and younger officers go for the jitter bug and rhumba classes, while the . older officers concentrate on the tango and Viennese waltzes. Half of the studio's women pupils are WAVES, wacs spars ma rines and navy nurses:
Mar 15, 1944 - According to officials of the Alas kan Wing Air Transport Command US Army the first detachment of women is expected to arrive In Edmonton In July Although there are US Army nurses in uniform here there have been few Wacs stationed here The few who came were here to see if their ...
Mar 16, 1944 - Wacs didn't like it and said so. Until last July the Wacs wore wedding clothes only if their com manding officers were willing. Then a directive descended to keep Wacs, army nurses, dietitians, and physiotberpists in uniform except for playtime — or at home provided they remembered ...
Mar 17, 1944 - Then a directive descended to keep wacs army nurses dietitians and physiotherapists in uniform except for playtime or at home provided they remembered three's a crowd SPARS marines and ceremonies and never a commanding officer said no Suddenly the army relented Today's trousseau can ...
Mar 21, 1944 - A regulation has been an nounced by the war department as official and both nurses and wacs may now go to the altar as their civilian sisters do instead of in regular uniform as was previously the case The war de partment removed its former ban on tulle and orange blossoms to meet the ...
Mar 22, 1944 - SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND Yes the girls in khaki and hat includes the American Army Nurses now that they have their new uniforms as well as wacs and American Red Cross lassiesdo go in for of male heartthrobs But they dont pursue the lobby on as large scale as their soldiers and whereas the ...
Apr 10, 1944 - Round about it a mixed choir of soldiers and wacs sang hymns. The outdoor congregation heard Dr. Geoffrey Fisher. ... A choir of soldiers and nurses concluded with the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. WASHINGTON, April Thousands of Washington officials and visitors, ...
Apr 15, 1944 - Women 'soldiers in the medical unit aid army doctors, dentists and nurses in the actual care of pa tients, fill vital jobs in hospital laboratories and perform equally Important administrative work. Any recruit in the Women's Army Corps may request assignment as Medical Wac, ...
Apr 24, 1944 - And that is that the women servicemen see . when they are aboard are courageous women — ready to risk their lives to serve as Army and Navy nurses wacs and Red Cross work . They are undoubtedly giving servicemen a new idea of how courageous , efficient, and really adult women can be. ...
May 4, 1944 - On 4 May 1944, a week before the landing of the first ship bringing Wacs, Colonel Brown and her assistant, Capt. Charlee L. Kelly, were sent to New Guinea to inspect the first advanced location, Port Moresby, to which some of the women would be sent two ...
May 10, 1944 - On some streets an Eng lishman stands out as incongru ously as he would in North Platte, Desk officers and fliers and intly at it, I think sheer awe is wacs and nurses abound. all that amuse the .picking me up. British are the "pink" trousers our officers wear and our perpetual ...
May 12, 1944 - ARRIVING IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, on 12 May 1944, above. Two days later members of the first contingent board buses for their new camp at Yeronga Park. [417] . . welcomed the WAC; spoke of the magnificent contribution of Australia to the war ...
May 16, 1944 - Later she dined in the WAC officers' mess. The impressive retreat parade at sundown was preceded by the awarding of unit citation ribbons to seven nurses who have served for 12 months with the First Evacuation Hospital in a New Guinea combat zone. They were among the first US nurses to ...
Jun 1944 - In June 1944, the development of an additional field shoe was initiated for heavy field usage for WACs and Army Nurses. It should be equipped with heavier sole and higher cut at the top in order to hold in the trouser leg (thereby eleminating the need for ...
Jun 1944 - During the summer the first WACs arrived in London, serving as secretaries, typists, stenographers, switchboard operators, and reconnaissance photo analysts . German bombing was sporadic throughout this period and following the D-Day invasion in June 1944, all ...
Jun 1944 - They were fenced in and guarded in the same way the WACs in the Pacific had been . In the latter part of the war as Allied troops began to take more Pacific islands, nurses in the region followed close behind. When the Allies took the Marianas Islands in June 1944, nurses ...
Jun 6, 1944 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower refused permission for nurses to participate in the invasion of France on June 6, 1944, but they did serve on ships offshore and four days later they waded onto the beaches. Three WACs and one member of the American Red Cross lie ...
Jul 1944 - Athough the 168th had been earmarked to receive POWs in July 1944 prior to the black nurses' arrival at the hospital from a basic training course at Schrienham , many in the African-American community felt the assignment of black nurses to a German prisoners ...
Jul 1944 - Worn with skirt or trousers and garrison cap. The battledress uniform was approved for WACs and nurses serving in the European Theater of Operations in July 1944. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower encouraged the use of the field jacket and it was nicknamed the Ike ...
Jul 6, 1944 - Hundreds of Wacs, American nurses and British soldiers tool? to life boats and later were picked up by a destroyer, . In Africa, Capt. Briggs was one of five Wacs who took care of telephone and stenographic work at the Casablanca conference of President Roosevelt with Prime Minister ...
Jul 9, 1944 - An intensive 10day recruitment tor three surgical and seven medical technicians needed the medical department of the WAC has been opened by ... the Army Service Forces Technicians perform their duties under supervision of medical officers and nurses qualifications in clude graduation ...
Jul 10, 1944 - cant be just because Uncle Sam is financing the education of the girls who go into the Cadet Nurse Corps The girls who go into the wacs and WAVES are getting valuable job experience at their tasks and many of them are being given training The reason the girls aren't hesitating to become ...
Jul 13, 1944 - ... ... be trained in the women's army corps in occupational therapy Secretary to the sales manager of the Pitts burgh Coke and Iron Company Miss mcphetridge attended the Universities of Arkansas Mis souri and Oklahoma She has been a Red Cross nurses aide Salva tion Army canteen worker and ...
Jul 13, 1944 - Nurses Wacs Waves Marineshave died in line of duty since the start of the war and even more are prisoners Six nurses died. Corps lists one Wac killed In lino of duty a jeep accident in North Africa The marines have lost seven members in accidents while the women were on duty Four navy ...
Jul 17, 1944 - The United States Cadet Nurses Corps has exceeded Its year quota of 65.000 student nurses by . How come, when wacs and WAVES are having so much recruiting trouble? It can't be Just because Uncle Sam Is financing the education of the girls who go Into the Into the wacs and WAVES arc ...
Jul 30, 1944 - Miss Mary Elizabeth Dietz marked her 20th birthday yesterday by joining the wacs She was sworn in by Lt Eliza beth Green of the Pitts burgh Officer Pro ... Graduates of Red Cross nurses Aides courses of women who have had six months of nurses training after enlistment are eligible for ...
Jul 30, 1944 - ... ... tent the first stateguard WAGS away at typewriters doing the stenographic work for the bivouac The The WACS WACS dressed dressed in ... corps of women were taking part in the ac tion They wore the Red Cross nurses and ambulance drivers who tended to the medical needs of the bivouac ...
Aug 1944 - By mid-August 1944 the activities of the Wacs and nurses in Normandy offered little in the way of fresh copy, and most of the women had moved on to Brittany, and its capital, Rennes, to report the return of General Charles de Gaulle to France. Although he had ...
Aug 1, 1944 - So ably are Wacs filling the many medical duties assigned to them 'that the surgeon general hopes to secure 50.000 Medical Wacs to aid army doctors, dentists, and nurses in the actual care of patients to fill vital jobs in hospital laboratories and to perform equally important ...
Aug 9, 1944 - seas from both the WACS and the Red Cross workers begging for the feminine touches that forever are needed in a woman's life One gay young ... hard working girls overseas want these fragile pretties for their dally job Some are kneedeep In mud bless the nurses But for every woman comes ...
Aug 25, 1944 - Any recruit In the WAC now tony request assignment as a medical wacs whether or not she has had previous medical experience ... medical and surgical technicians nurses aides ambulance drivers admitting officers and clerks post office clerks and librarians are among the few now available.
Sep 6, 1944 - A Travel or Lounge Set For WACS WAVES Nurses 7.95each think of anything a girl in the service will and pleasure from than this pajama and robe pajamas have a tiearound belt gathered back pockets The wraparound mannish coat has wide lapels and a pocket Tailored from fine Rayon Shan ...
Oct 6, 1944 - But they still were gay enough to cause WACS, army nurses, and two men correspondents to stare at the blonde models in Maggy blue and gold salon where was given the first of a 10-day showing by one of the grand couturiers. seems terrible to see huge velvet skirts and sequins when the ...
Here is an Article where Gay means Happy, instead of what you are thinking !
Oct 8, 1944 - Things for wacs and Nurses BOX OF TOILET GOODS regulation size containing soap cakes face powder cleansing cream shampoo bath powder hand cream lather leaves soap tooth powder tooth brush powder puff 4.50 plus Federal excise tax on items starred. STATIONERY in fancy styles of laid ...
Oct 13, 1944 - today more doctors and nurses were needed in the field lo care for the wounded and served notice that she would seek congressional action unless the in crease came soon. Back from two weeks in Franco and Belgium where she shared the life of army nurses and Wacs, Mrs. Rogers had high ...
Oct 25, 1944 - Practicing on another member of the Women's Army Corps, these At the Army school for medical technicians, Hot Springs, Arkansas, arc learning to assist Army medical officers and Army nurses as X-ray technicians. The Army needs Wacs to fill different types of interesting . health again. ...
Dec 13, 1944 - Plans will be completed for the Christmas dinner to be given for the Wacs and personnel on December The Mothers of Service Nurses will meet at 2 o'clock in Soldiers Memorial Hall for a Christmas program. The Christmas party of the Mary mccarty Club, national women's organization of the ...
Dec 19, 1944 - The result is not only to discourage enlistment in the nurses corps, but to create inertia and resistance in the face of the many practical efforts being made to enlarge the supply of women who can do nursing, be it as nurse's aides or Wacs. Only an aroused and informed public opinion, ...
Dec 20, 1944 - Margaret Craighill to Surgeon General, US Army, "Health Conditions of Nurses and WACs in MTOUSA," 20 December 1944, HD 333 - Health Conditions of Nurses and WACs, WWII Administrative Records, MTO (Geographic File 1917-1949); Record ...
Dec 25, 1944 - Joe's story of what Santa is bringing his kid make the soldier's eyes shine are over 600 women working at the hospital in num«rous capacities nurses cadet nurses Wacs Red Cross workers physiotherapists army dietitians and regular employes. There are a few women patiente too some of ...
Dec 27, 1944 - ... ... uncomfortable, make-shift hospital buildings, often inadequately equipped and insufficiently staffed with doctors, nurses and attendants. ... WACS serving as medical technicians were required to work 12 hours daily on the committee said amounted to domestic maid service and . ...
1945 - On Pearl Har- bor Day there were only 5000 Native Americans enlisted, but by the end of the war in 1945, 44500 American Indians had served in the military. Several hundred were women, serving as WACS, WAVES, and military nurses. Native Americans responded.
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Jan 1945 - 39323 WACs were assigned to the AAF in January 1945. Approximately 1100 were African-American women assigned to ten segregated AAF units. more than 1000 as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), and 6500 as nurses in the Army Air Forces ...
Women served more successfully as part of the war-time Army Air Forces. Nearly 40,000 served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps/Women's Army Corps as AAF personnel,, p.514. 39,323 WACs were assigned to the AAF in January 1945. Approximately 1,100 were African-American women assigned to ten segregated AAF units. more than 1,000 as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), and 6,500 as nurses in the Army Air Forces, including 500 flight nurses. 7,601 USAAF WACs served overseas in April 1945, and women performed in more than 200 job categories.
Jan 18, 1945 - The staff of the WAC running the recruiting advertisements used savvy advertising techniques. One example is an article that appeared in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade on 18 January 1945, under the headline “WACs Replace Skilled Nurses in Hospitals, More Needed ...
Jan 23, 1945 - by Mrs Oswald Lord chairman of the Second Ser vice Command Civilian Advisory committee for the WAC which is sponsoring the drive in cooperation with the army Launching of the campaign to recruit the Theodore Roosevelt Jr WAC Company will take place February 1 and will continue for one ...
Jan 31, 1945 - On January 31 , 1945, Pvt. Eddie Slovik was shot for desertion, the first American executed for the crime since the Civil War and the only one to suffer this punishment during World War II. WACs, WASPs, and WAVES At the outset of the war, women ...
Feb 3, 1945 - Dale's annovincpmont follows close on tho heels of a statement of the need by Gen George Marshall Chief of Staff who says caro of tho Increasing numbers of casualties returning to tho United States together with tho acute shortage of nurses and hospital personnel generally necessitates ...
Feb 7, 1945 - Her anger grew out of the dis cussion over the proposed draft of nurses. don't draft is necessary to provide the Army and Navy with an adequate ... realizes that in the Nurse corps, there is little chance of ever rising above a second lieu tenant's rating and pay. wacs become captains, ...
Feb 9, 1945 - ... —The American Nurses Association said today it would accept a nurses' draft " only as a first step In a selective service act for all women. ... in stead a federally-financed recruit ment program to be at least com parable in scope to those employed In enlisting Wacs and Waves. ...
Feb 9, 1945 - program to be at least comparable in scope to those employed in en listing WACS and WAVES ANA president Katharine Densford outlined the association's views to the house mili tary committee which is con sidering President Roosevelt's request for a nurses draft law War Manpower Com ...
Feb 12, 1945 - Marion Brodnax, of the Woman's Army corps stationed at Charlotte, stated that the need for surgical and medical techni cians to assist the army nurses is becoming increasingly acute. use of members of the Women's Army Corps." said Lt. Baxter, "enlisted surgical and medical technicians, ...
Feb 13, 1945 - ... ... outlined the need of Medical wacs With 20.000 wounded men coming back to the united States each month government hospitals are finding themselves understaffed Captain Heed said Many Jobs there are many jobs for which trained nurses arent needed she pointed out These include keeping ...
Feb 20, 1945 - The Army is doing everything- in its power to obtain more nurses. At the tame time, a vast effort must be made to stretch the professional efficiency of every single Army on duty in the United States. This is why are 8000 Wacs are needed immediately in United States Army Hospitals to ...
Feb 22, 1945 - THE MEDICAL WAC drive is going to be a break for some girl with an eye to the future After a brief training period the girls will get hospital experience doing jobs for wounded servicemen that need not be performed by registered nurses When they complete their work they will be ...
Feb 26, 1945 - The country is doing everything in its power to recruit more nurses. But at same time a vast effort must be made to stretch the professional usefulness of every single Army nurse on duty in the United States. This is why Wacs are needed to help — now. More than 8000 Wacs are needed ...
Feb 26, 1945 - ... ... more volunteers are needed but the wacs expect to meet the overall goal by May Enlistees will be assigned to units for service in army hospitals throughout the United States They may choose the hospital in which they want to serve wacs are needed because there are not enough nurses ...
Feb 26, 1945 - An opportunity to assist doctors and nurses in performing lifesavIng operations awaits Lane county women who enlist In the women's armycorps to serve as surgical technicians with the medical de partment wacs who qualify for this work become an Integra part of a surgery team along with ...
Feb 27, 1945 - ... ... of Columbia to exercise their leaderhip in aiding a new and vigorous drive to enlist WACS for he newly created women's Army Corps general hospital companies or service at the army's 60 general in tills country There medical technicians are needed to back up the gallant army nurses ...
Feb 27, 1945 - WITH THE WACS IN FRANCEnow living in Alpine huts and working in an old French school the Women's Army Corps detach ment which landed In Africa ... for many new adjustments The Wacs were billeted in an old hospital building vacated by tho medical corps When the doctors and nurses left ...
Mar 1945 - She produced thousands of images of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, orphaned children and, in March 1945, the 332nd Fighter Group, stationed at Ramitelli Air Field in Italy. These are the only known professional photos of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Remembered for high-fashion photography, Toni Frissell volunteered to photograph the American Red Cross, Women's Army Corps, and Eighth Army Air Force during WWII. She produced thousands of images of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, orphaned children and, in March 1945, the 332nd Fighter Group, stationed at Ramitelli Air Field in Italy. These are the only known professional photos of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Mar 22, 1945 - ... ... many of the duties formerly performed by nurses This takes a great deal of the burden from the shoul ders of the nurse and she is granted more time to ... WAC army recruiting offi cers are conducting a drive throughout to enlist WAC recruits for training as medical technicians Wacs ...
Mar 23, 1945 - In addition to these and other medical officers and nurses, the staff and faculty will include 32 enlisted men and 50 wacs who have completed 12-week courses at Army Medical Department Enlisted Technician Schools and arc qualified Instructors. The course, for WAC medical and surgical ...
Mar 31, 1945 - At hearings on the Nurse Draft Bill, testimony was introduced to show that the Army would not accept colored cadet.; nurses at any of its military ... She requested ;ijwestigation by the War Department. Want Clause Retained' Retention of the antidiscrimination clause in the Nurse.
Apr 1945 - By April 1945 Army general hospitals were using 2000 cadet nurses and ,000 civilian nurses, as well as civilian aides, orderlies, Red Cross volunteers, and WACs.
Apr 4, 1945 - the kind of help our wounded Service men need is what any intelligent healthy earnest woman can give the performance of gen eral duties which free nurses and doc tors for professional care to a greater number of patients If you wish you can choose a hos pital right here in near San ...
Apr 17, 1945 - New York State, with 900563 in the Army, including 17563 Wacs and nurses, leads the 48 states. Pennsylvania is second with 663666 including 11.666 women, and Illinois third with 507233 including 9233 women. Wisconsin is 14th The war department figures show Wisconsin had 194765 ac ...
May 12, 1945 - Major Walter Carroll, who was re•ently transferred to Pittsburgh head the office , announced yesterday. The office will continue to recruit Wacs for replacements and will assist in the procurement of nurses and reserves for the Army Specialized Training Replacement Program.
Jun 11, 1945 - An for Cannes where the officers stay, and Cap vacation spot for army nurses and wacs they Trinity Episcopal Parish House for nil new and retiring . The swank officers' hotels all have dance orchestras at meal time and wacs nurses and pretty local girls alternate dances with colonel ...
Jul 2, 1945 - the Pacific area will follow the example of Teheran and air condition hospitals and quarters where night nurses must sleep in the daytime was expressed by Maj. Margaret Craighill, just returned from an eight month medical inspection tour of WACS and army nurses. ...
Jul 28, 1945 - Wacs. The barrack is yet in the process of being furnished and when completed will offer recreation rooms, library, administration offices, supply rooms and a PX. All of the facilities and recreational features of the hospital are available to Both are being broken in on I unit the ...
Jul 31, 1945 - It was In 1942 when the local Chapter of Red Cross conducted its first class in Volunteer Nurse's Aides with the cooperation of the ... The many of Tuscaloosa's most brilliant young women, has sailed with the armed forces for Europe where she will serve with the wacs as a first ...
Aug 15, 1945 - Steadily the girls who could be spared from home duties joined Waves, Wacs, Marines and Spars, or enlisted as Cadet Nurses, and we who hate regimentation got to admire the trimness of their tal- . bandages or pack kits, drive in the motor corps, work in the blood bank or become nurse's ...
Aug 24, 1945 - officers, Wacs and army nurses, who dropped their military manners for a day and took charge of three homeless little girls whose harassed father brought them to camp, waved goodbye to them this morning as they set off for their new homes in Philadelphia. The father, Private Louis ...
Sep 1945 - Educating and training nurses became a high priority establishing many nursing programs throughout the US The first flight nurses were trained in Louisville, Kentucky at Bowman Field. When the war ended in September of 1945, there were almost 60000 nurses ...
Sep 5, 1945 - CHRISTMAS PACKAGES sent Overseas are going to conv tain more than ever a load of cheer Now that peace is here weve got to make an extra effort to make the holidays merry for our boys still in service and the Wacs nurses and Red Cross girls who have not yet been able to return to this ...
Sep 14, 1945 - Also aboard were nearly 200 nurses and more than 300 Wacs. the largest con tingent to be returned from Europe. The brought 3248 troops, including the field artillery battalions of the 69th the division that met tilt Russians at the Elbe after fighting across Germany.
Sep 20, 1945 - The discharge score for enlisted Wacs will be reduced from 41 to 36 on Oct 1 and further I reduced to 34 on Nov. ... Medical department officer Including nurses, will continue to be under a recently separate system for of medical corp. a officer All of these new discharge score will be ...
Sep 28, 1945 - of 1000 men. wacs and nurses, the office of the surgeon general said today. The disease, apparently becomes active partly because of unusual sensitivity or certain individuals to atabrine, army medical reports In . After the first Pacific island Invasions, it was necessary to evacuate ...
Sep 29, 1945 - ... ... today brought home more than 15775 troops from. Europe and the Far . The 14888 troops aboard huge liner included the 254th and 255th regiments of the 63rd infantry division, 67th general hospital, air corps personnel, 91 nurses and 91 WACS. aboard were 279 navy personnel, and.
Oct 1945 - Togasaki left Italy at the end of October, 1945, and reached California in November: "I went down to the State Department of Public Health, and I was offered a job then and there to start the next day." Togasaki was one of the most senior ranking Nisei woman ...
Oct 8, 1945 - Your dollars don't forget oui gal lant WACS, and Army Nurses. them, the USO All branches of our armed forces receive the mercy of your dollars. They bring everything from . Your dollars bring the "smiles of Stars" each week to more than a million men, wherever they are, ...
Oct 16, 1945 - Most of the servicemen were members of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces. Others aboard in cluded 572 Wacs. 123 Army nurses. 50 Navy personnel, 56 United States civilians, British civil ians and a few British and Cana dian military officers. Cunard Line officials said long-, ...
Oct 22, 1945 - AT NEW YORK: Morton from Karachi) 3085 miscellaneous troops, 3 wacs and 68 army nurses. cranston Victory) Le Havre) 1963 troops including headquarters and head quarters battery of 404th field artillery group; 199th field artillery battalion : 125th reconnais sance squadron (mechanized) ...
Oct 23, 1945 - The president had nothing to say about possible training; of young women for the kind of service they gave in World War as wacs WAVES. SPARS, women marines, and nurses. Declaring that "peace must be built upon power." the president warned that enever again will this country have time ...
Oct 25, 1945 - 2nd 26th and 115th groups; headquarters and head quarters batteries 402nd and 416th artillery groups; 286th and 200th field artillery observation> . a 1 artillery "group; 533rd anti-air craft battalion; 35th and 153rd anti-aircraft operations detach' ments; five wacs 250 nurses, ...
Nov 4, 1945 - At Boston General Breckenridge,— from Havre: 6.187 miscellaneous army personnel, army nurses and wacs Thomas Marshall, from Le Havre: 574 miscellaneous army personnel: Smith Victory, from Le Havre: 1541 miscellaneous troops and army transport command personnel; George Sharswood. from ...
Nov 25, 1945 - Prior to this time only wacs married to discharged members of the mili tary forces are being released. ... The dis charge score for nurses is 35 points and for dieticians and physical therapy aides 40 points. Nurses can get out if they are 35 years of age and the other 2 ...
Dec 19, 1945 - The factors for release of sanitary corps officers, medical administrative corps officers, nurses, physiotherapists, and dietitians remain unchanged. Wac officer and enlisted per sonnel married to discharged veterans of World War may be released upon their own appli cation, ...
Dec 24, 1945 - Only a brief nine weeks be fore, ho and his people had been prisoners of tho Japanese. with knives and at their belts; soldiers with carbines slung over their shoul ders; white troops and troops, enlisted men and officers, and wacs and nurses rubbed pihows with each other and with ...
1946 - There were quarters for officers, enlisted men, nurses, and WACS. In addition, one unit housed German prisoners of war. When the hospital was closed in 1946, the state established the University of Illinois Extension to accommodate the enormous numbers of ...
1946 - In 1946, Hormel hit on the idea of augmenting his company's male sales staff with ex-service women who would market products directly to homemakers. Hormel recruited GI Janes — Wacs, Waves, Spars, Women Marines and nurses — and he specified that they should ...
Jan 4, 1946 - The veterans administration at Washington Friday began hiring the first of some 2.800 physicians nurses and dentists under a bill President ... urology and eye ear nose and throat Naming of obstetric and gynecology specialists is in preparation for caring for WACS WAVES and other women ...
Jan 15, 1946 - that date all activities at the fort will cease Headquarters said the army's only all woman separation center opened at Fort Des Moines last October and to date has processed more than 10000 WACS army nurses physio therapists and hospital dieticians for discharge Future separation of ...
Jan 15, 1946 - who created the Redias done such an outstanding work in the two great wars In the last war in particular hundreds of thousands of the fair sex became members of the Nurses Corps wacs WAVES SPARS Women Marines and other organizations active on. at home in the various units connected ...
Jan 17, 1946 - It would be known as the women's Corps" and include army nurses as well as Wacs. Maj. Gen. Willard Paul, chief of army personnel, told a senate mili tary sub- committee yesterday that the projected women's corps would be a small group, numbering between 5000 and 6000.
Jan 24, 1946 - Bay Victory from Le Havre 1592 troops including special units of the 33rd Infantry ReRlment 74th Engineer Light Pontoon Company and four wacs William and Mary Victory 1554 troops Including 109 nurses Williams Victory from Le Havre1520 troops Including the 3rd Bat talion of the 335th ...
Jan 26, 1946 - ... ... homes in the United States Many of the babies were carried aboard the ship in the unaccustomed arms of grinning soldiers American naval officers aboard the refitted luxury liner welcomed the British brides There were two surgeons seven nurses and seven wacs on hand to look after ...
Jan 28, 1946 - the decks fell in the passageways limp and miserable Doctors nurses wacs Reel Cross personnel and the ship's crew worked frantically to get them to their Children were abandoned in the cabins or left alone screaming by mothers who were weak and sick lo reach them A litlle boy climbing ...
Feb 3, 1946 - Red Cross in the Philippines as recreation worker at Tagaytay Ridge rest area for wacs nurses and women Red Cross personnel According to dispatches from Manila newspapers to Red Cross area headquarters at Atlanta Miss Bourne was one of the hostesses at the recent formal opening of the ...
Feb 4, 1946 - Doctors, nurses, WACS, Red Cross personnel and the ships' crew worked frantically to get them to their cabins. Children . she began to roll in a long ground- 1 who were too weak and sick to swell. Before outbreak of disease. Lt. Col. Floyd Lyle, transport com mander, they announced an ...
Feb 5, 1946 - Doctors, nurses, WACS. Red Cross . of Britain's middle- and up- personnel and the ship's crew . The brides came England, Ireland. Scotland. Wales and Malta. They were destined for homes in 44 different states. Socially they represented hospital tinder constant conservation by Army ...
Feb 10, 1946 - ... ... the women were violently seasick They collapsed on deck fell in the passageways slumped on stairways Children were abandoned by mothers too weak and ill to care for them Doctors nurses wacs Red Cross nurses and the ship's officers strug strug gled frantically to get them to their ...
Feb 13, 1946 - ARRIVINGAt New York Sea Robin from Le Havre 1.582 troops Including 96th Chemical Mortar Battal ion 698th Field Artillery Battalion 19 nurses 28 wacs and 43 civilians Miscellaneous personnel on following Wilfred Grenfell from Trinidad 2 army and 3 civilians Franz from Tunis 2 At Los ...
Feb 25, 1946 - Tax exemption of pay and other service compensation from the Government applies to women as well as men in the military services WACS WAVES SPARS Army and Navy Nurses and so forth. Travel Expenses.
Feb 28, 1946 - Undefeated thus far and victors over wacs Nurses and Cadet Nurses, the boys are feeling their oats. The reason the Purple Hearters limit the opposition to females is that each of the 18 players has an artificial leg. the result of battle wounds in World War 2. ...
Feb 28, 1946 - Including 563rd anti-aircraft Artillery Air Warning Battalion: 770th Artillery Battalion: 25 nurses, 43 Wacs, four navy personnel. Miscellaneous on following vessels: Kosemont from Antwerp, eight (due originally yesterday); Alcoa Patriot from Naples, 1112 AT SAN DIEGO — Miscellaneous ...
Mar 2, 1946 - On May 1 1945 colored personnel in the Army numbered 700304 of which 4003 were Wacs This represented the peak during the war years ... 4743Dental Corps Officers 79 Nurses 318 Other Medical Officers 331 Chaplains 143Serving Overseas 216197Pacific Theater 130.019 China and indiaburma The ...
Mar 9, 1946 - Wacs This represented the peak during the war years. A partial breakdown of colored strength in the Army as of Jan 1 follows ... Nurses 318 Other Medical Corps Officers 331 Chaplains 143 Serving Overseas 216897 Pacific Theater 130019 China and india burma Theaters 10.135 Alaskan ...
Mar 10, 1946 - enlisted wacs should be submitted without delay according to word received yesterday at field from headquarters Ninth service command ... couple as care takers for a summer home part time clerks and factory workers nurses aides for out of town jobs and institutional cooks and house keepers.
Mar 16, 1946 - Non service connected disabilities are disabilities received which are not connected the military service The VA is standing pat on its ruling that pregnancy is not a disability disease or de fect and therefore exwacs and nurses cannot have their babies in VA hospitals ...
Mar 19, 1946 - The nylons, 25000 pairs which he army procured for wacs and nurses and now finds surplus were placed on sale Thursday ai :he quartermaster sales store at the war college here, a store from which enlisted men are customarily barred at all army posts. Officers, both men and women, ...
Mar 26, 1946 - ... ... July Under my bill already over 300000 have enlisted Nurses education was successfully operated on a voluntary basis and with the heavy pressure put by the army and navy the enlistment of Waves and Wacs was very successful and each quota was met Voices Full Confidence have full ...
Mar 29, 1946 - John Palm chaplain of Michigan AMVETS will be present to aid in signing the charter and conduct the election of officers Membership is open to all veterans including wacs and WAVES Army and Navy nurses and servicemen in all services during World war.
Apr 4, 1946 - Chambers is in Gen Wooten will review army navy marine and coast guard units Red Cross and veteran groups army nurses and wacs at the Saturday morning parade Col Charles Met tier chairman of Army Day arrangements announced may attend.
Apr 5, 1946 - Likewise stranded are some "war bridegrooms" — alien husbands acquired by WACS and nurses in the course of the war. The War Department reported that through March 31 a total of 20.675 dependents — 14.966 women and 5.709 children— arrived United States and an . 2.000 are en route. ...
Apr 19, 1946 - April 18 Ten thousand women wacs and nurses) are leaving the Army, but —the quartermaster corps said to before they give up their anthropometries. A team of anthropologists is going to go over the girls with a tape measure In 60 separate places— a — . 6-months job. trimmer uniforms for ...
Apr 25, 1946 - Of course the voting majority of the nurses at this hospital were veterans of long and honorable service many of them dating from the first ... fraternal political bowling boating dramatic garden or square dancing the brunettes sparked by darktressed exwacs and nurses might be able to ...
Apr 27, 1946 - ... ... of this huge air base home of the 477th Composite Group is the hospital unit a modern fully equipped setup operated by a staff of They include seven medical officers five dental officers three medical administration officers one chaplain 56 enlisted men and« Wacs 14 Nurses Awaited ...
Apr 29, 1946 - The purpose of the Army's undertaking which is being carried out by the Quartermaster Corps is to provide data for the designing of trimmer better fitting clothes for Wacs and Army nurses Even such measure ments as the distance between the temples and the length and width of hands and ...
May 1946 - At the end of May 1946, the Gl did not have a unanimous staff position to present to Chief of Staff Eisenhower. The G-2, the chief of the Special Planning Division, and the commanding general of Army Service Forces still opposed regular and reserve status ...
May 2, 1946 - Didn't the wacs and nurses wear them overseas right into the battlefield' . women want slacks. They're going to get them one way or the other If you slop production of women's slacks, they'll walk right into men's shops and buy men's If you make pants especially for women you use- less ...
May 30, 1946 - The however, is considering an amendment which would bring in the nurses and WACS of World War who would be eligiole through their overseas service. Such an amendment will be pro-^ posed at the convention in Boston Boston this summer, and is that it will be passed. ...
Jun 12, 1946 - TOKYO June 12 The army has decided to let Its wacs and nurses go dancing glamorously They will be permitted to wear civilian evening gownsat appropriate social functions headquarters decreed and civilian clothing while relaxing in their own quar ters But it warned againstgen eral ...
Oct 2, 1946 - Wacs, Waves and army-navy nurses have been permitted to wear civilian clothes when off duty since last month. In September of last year, the Navy Issued civilian-clothes-in lelsure-time authority to its personnel but hastily withdrew it In view of the civilian ' clothing shortage. ...
Oct 30, 1946 - gone on record as opposed to set ting of the Wac enlistment age at as proposed In the Wac Integration act of 1946 it was announced yesterday ... post Is composed of Wacs Waves Spars Marines and Nurses and has a membership of It is seeking new members Membership chairman is Miss Cecelia.
Dec 2, 1946 - MOSCOW Idaho Dec Former wacs WAVES marines SPARS and army nurses 30 of up slightly more than 1 per cent of the 2100 veterans attending the University of Idaho this year Eleven of the women are married and most. husband wife are students However one couple could not quite decide ...
Jan 9, 1947 - ... ... on All the time this Is going on soldiers wacs nurses and sons and daughters of military personnel at Fort Wright skate around the edges adding to the general confusion But everybody has a fine time and spectators rate it the No 3 current entertainment attraction at Fort Wright.
Feb 4, 1947 - During the war Mr Mathewson was on leave of absence to the Office of War Information While in Washington he was a program manager in charge of a number of promotion campaignsfor the recruitment of Cadet Nurses WACS WAVES and Marines and was also program man ager for the Security of War ...
Feb 4, 1947 - Robert Mathewson a professor at Harvard University During the war Mr Mathewson was on leave of absence to the Office of War Information While in Washington Mr was a program manager in charge of a number of promotion campaigns for the recruitment of Cadet Nurses Waves Wacs Marines and ...
Mar 1, 1947 - only of women who served in Work War has now opened its member ship for wacs waves nurses and relief workers of the past war who served in Europe Asia Africa Iceland Greenland Alaska Pan ama Canal Zone Hawaii or Philippines Women who saw serv ice only in continental United Slates are ...
Mar 2, 1947 - As protons and neutrons constitute the nuclei of atoms, of whid the material universe is PROPOSED WAC UNIFORMS— Dayton, Ohio, March 1.— wacs all over the country and in overseas theaters are choosing "between these proposed work uniforms. Shown here are nurses' moss green summer ...
Mar 7, 1947 - ... ... Slippers The Nez Perce county group has the distinction of having originated slippers for service women during the war she added At first Red Cross groups knitted them only for men but the Lewiston women conceived tho Idea of making slippers for nurses wacs and WAVES The Tent.
May 11, 1947 - Somehow soldiers got used having Wacs around. From Guam to Great Britain they were gener-jally accepted. few Wacs made a big name. 'eluding 'eluding luding luding 1200 assisting nurses in in One kept d-day secret. An- hospitals. other clocked General Marshall's The Wac is limited to ...
May 14, 1947 - The army-navy Nurses' Corps as a permanent arm of military forces has been enacted and signed by the President. ... His answer to queries on progress of volunteer enlistments in the armed forces was that Wacs and Waves as permanent branches would help materially. ...
Jul 12, 1947 - ... ... officers flight officers and warrant officers Nine of this number held commissions as WAC officers One dietitian one physical therapist and. Army nurses served with the Medical Corps Enlisted Personnel Within the Continental United States the enlisted personnel com prised 9.61 per ...
Jul 22, 1947 - army nurses corps carried on with its great. women show greater aptitude than men in certain c duties in the complex housekeeping a ... The proposed legislation would provide that at 2 per cent of the strength of the forces women which would mean 20000 wacs 10000 000 WAVES and 2300 ...
Aug 1, 1947 - arc still in the Signal legislation wacs could make up i Corps two per cent of the regular Army Naturally there are fewer and number ... arc the wacs up to now Plenty and If legislation to make them a permanent and in tegral part of the Army passes the American WAC will have slatted ...
Sep 17, 1947 - I feel Salt . Lake is . eluding wacs and nurses, are I much like Spokane." eligible for membership in the as sociation." Jones said the principal tives of the association are adequate national defense, an improved air reserve training pro gram and equitable benefits for air.
Oct 1, 1947 - WASHINGTON— 50— The Army maintaining discreet neutrality in he battle of the hemlines insofars wacs and nurses are concerned. ... The report disclosed, among other things, that wacs and nurses born in New England or the Middle Atlantic States were generally shorter than women from ...
Oct 1, 1947 - The study was designed to provide them with beter fitting clothing The report disclosed other things that wacs and nurses born in New England or the Middle Atlantic states were generally shorter than women from other regions Women from the const averaged the tallest.
Oct 1, 1947 - The findings were based on the measurements of 8253 white women who served in the WAG and Nurses' Corps during the war. ... medium height of Army nurses from the Pacific Coast was one inch greater than those from any other area and that Pacific Coast Wacs also were taller than average; ...
Oct 2, 1947 - The quartermaster corps took 65 different body measurements of 8259 enlist ed and commissioned WACS and of nurses. Apparently considering the subject rather delicate, the quar . gave only the age, height and weight statistics to the army's public information division. ...
Oct 12, 1947 - 99.44 cent of the women questioned admitted marriage was their number one choice of a career There are over 300000 practicing nurses Within ... yearly to be mailed many returning to work later During the war one out of every five WACS and women Marines married service records show ...
Nov 12, 1947 - ... ... the hushed crowd of watchers left the shelter of store doorways and thea ter marquees to cheer Uniformed wacs and WAVES nurses women of the American Red Cross and post auxiliaries filed smartly by as potent reminders of important part American women played in the two world wars ...
Dec 22, 1947 - Local members arc all former Red Cross girls volunteer YMCA personnel of World War I or nurses So far the Milwaukee unit has no former wacs waves or Marines. The organization is especially about the women's ward at Wood It provides the patients with books prizes for their competitive ...
Feb 11, 1948 - The Funeral Ship Cardinal OConnell arrived last night car rying 2799 caskets and 13 cremation urns The dead included 12 WACS and nurses first women returned. Most of the remains came from temporary cemeteries e in Australia and.
Feb 12, 1948 - army arranged public memorial services today for the second contingent of American war dead from the Pacific. The funeral ship Cardinal O'Connell arrived last night, carrying 2.799 caskets and 13 cremation urns. The dead included 12 WACS and nurses — first women returned. ...
Feb 12, 1948 - The dead included 12 Wacs and nurses — first women returned. Most of the remains came from temporary cemeteries in Australia . and Guadalcanal. Eight hundred were assembled at Honolulu the Central Pacific and China, . Among the bodies aboard the ship is that of Signalman DouglasA. ...
Feb 13, 1948 - public memorial serv ices Thursday for the second con tingent of American war dead from the Pacific The funeral ship Cardinal OConnell arrived Wednesday night car rying 2799 caskets and 13 crema tion. The dead included 12 WACS and nurses first women returned Most of the remains came ...
Feb 13, 1948 - The funeral ship Cardinal O'Connell arrived Wednesday night, car rying 2.799 caskets and 13 crema tion urns. The dead included 12 Wacs and nurses — first women returned. Most of the remains came from temporary cemeteries in Australia and Guadalcanal. Eight hundred were assembled at ...
Feb 14, 1948 - ... ... former member of the Women's Army corps who was the first WAC to join a South Carolina Legion post She said more than 50 eligible women veterans ... still in active service are eligible for membership in the American Legion This includes yeomanettes and nurses of World War and WACS ...
Mar 4, 1948 - Commander Winifred Hays has invited all veterans of active service in wacs WAVES . SPARS, Women Marines and army, navy and marine nurses of World War and yeomanettes and of World War to attend. An organization meeting was held two weeks ago, attended by suite and district Legion com ...
Jul 13, 1948 - There are no wacs nurses or women of color anywhere in theater in service. The question of officers and of the branches of service reserved for whiles becomes one and the same at so many points they will be discussed here together By now it is generally known that most colored troops ...
Sep 6, 1948 - Of the 86.327 total 211 were alien husbands of WACS Army and Navy nurses Another 2.634 were children who are not automatically eligible for American citizenship under regular immi gration laws even though born to « citizen father. These statistics are the latest the bureau of ...
Sep 23, 1948 - Women may join the regular Army, Navy and Air Corps again The WACS, WAVES, and WAFS will have the -same status as men in uniform, ... On June 1945 was below its peak war strength, almost 63000 women held commis sions as Army officers In this total were "some 54000 nurses, ...
Oct 15, 1948 - Today there are more than 250000 former WAVES, WACS, SPARS and nurses in the Legion. There are some 203 all-womenposts — but most of the girls pre fer to join up with "co-ed" posts. The Legion, the largest but . neither the first nor the last association of war veterans in American ...
Oct 15, 1948 - Tho 3000000th member enrolled in 1948 was a Today there are more than 250000 former Waves, Wacs, Spars and nurses in the Legion. there are some 203 all-women posts —but most of the girls prefer to join up with "co-ed" posts. Legionnaires arc proud that between 1025 and they.
Oct 15, 1948 - The campaign Is being under in tho taken In the face of a post-war out tho slump Her husband, also a veteran, became Legionnaire number 3000001 Today there are more than 250000 former Waves, WACS, Spars and nurses In the Legion, There are some 203 all-women posts— but most of the girls ...
Oct 15, 1948 - 3000001 Today there are more than 250000 former WAVES, wacs SPARS and nurses in the There are some 203 all-women posts — but most of the girls prefer to join up with "co-ed" posts, he Legion, the largest but the first nor the last as sociation of war veterans in Ameri can military ...
Oct 16, 1948 - Her husband also a veteran became Legionnaire number 3.000001 Today there are more than 250i000 former Waves Wacs Spars and nurses In the Legion There are some 203 all women most of the girls prefer to join up with coed posts. The Legion the largest but neither the first nor the last ...
Oct 17, 1948 - The 3.000,000th member enrolled in was Today there are more than 250000 former Waves, Wacs, Spars and nurses in the Legion. There are some 205 all-women posts —but most of the girls prefer to Join up with "co-ed" posts. The. legion, the largest but neither the first nor the last as ...
Oct 21, 1948 - Her husband, also a veteran, became Legionnaire numher 3000001 Today there are more tha 250.000 former WAVES WACS SPARS and nurses in the Legion! There are some 203 all-women posts, but most of the girls prefer to join up with "co-ed" posts. The Legion, the "neither the first nor the ...
Nov 20, 1948 - In satiating compromise I hurried down to the ship that next night to join the other civil ian girls wacs nurses and British wrens in quick drink before the Admiral's dinner at 8oclock. BUT AN AIR RAID sabotaged that plan Sitting there in lovely navy comfort with amiable companions and ...
Nov 21, 1948 - take gym Now women in industries and nurses and wacs who worked at the front have shown us that given good health today's woman can stand as much physical strain as men of comparable strength Dr Scott is a smartly coiffed softly tailored woman with intelligent eyes and a friendly grin ...
Nov 30, 1948 - Now women in industries and nurses and WACS who worked at the front lave shown us that, given good health, today's woman can stana as much physical strain as men of com parable strength." Dr. Scott is a smartly coiffed, softly tailored woman with intelligent eyes and a friendly grin. ...
Dec 4, 1948 - I was hurt; then angered at the slander of wacs overseas. The girls in London and Algiers had told me about it, but I still didn't believe ... I 'thought of the mutilated men I'd seen in hospitals, of the American nurses, who worked day after day with those wounded, drawing upon a per ...
Dec 12, 1948 - You will work with a friendly group. You will get frequent vacations with in most Instances with your round trip rail fare paid to your. Sounds good Then if you are a former member of the Wacs Waves Spars Marines or of the Army or home. Navy Nurses Corps you may be one of the girls our ...
Jan 28, 1949 - Officials pointed out that Army nurses (commissioned officers) have been stationed at the hospital many years. Ono officer said the WAG complement may be increased to about 100 In April, and there Is a pos sibility they may be assigned other post duties such as handling trans— ...
Feb 28, 1949 - of Bonham Tex yesterday became the first woman officer in the United States Navy to be stationed in Europe Navy an nounced that she is on duty at Frankfurt Germany During the last war WACS and Army nurses got into Eu rope and Navy nurses to Engand but WAVES were prevent ed by ...
Mar 16, 1949 - many girls who served with the wacs WAVES and as nurses are now tragic cases in the mental institutions she said many were wounded during the war but there are many girls whose minds have failed them Mrs Donovan believes her organization can help fight the communists and contribute its ...
Aug 4, 1949 - in WACS WAVES SPARS Marines or nurses corps of World War An honorable service discharge wag the only requirement for membership in the newlyfound post One of the persons instrumental in bringing about the gathering was Mrs Ira Williams who was elected commander of the post She together ...
Oct 1949 - A different study began in October 1949 at Walter Reed General Hospital (Forest Glen Section), Washington, DC Twenty-nine enlisted women entered an experimental 48-week course in practical nursing—the Advanced Medical Technicians Procedures Course. The ...
1950 - Only 15000 women remained in the armed forces, besides nurses, when the Korean War broke out in 1950. Despite the request of field commanders, the US Army refused to assign women personnel other than nurses to Korea, allowing them to come no further than ...
Feb 24, 1950 - The Wacs today caught up with the Waves in the field of fashion. The new Women's Army uniform designed by Hattie Carnegie was unveiled at Fort ... The summer uniform of the Army Nurses Corps is cut on the same soft lines as the regulation uniform but is in v white palm beach- cloth. ...
Mar 20, 1950 - and covers in leading magazines From the ranks of manicurists airline hostesses college students nurses and during the war from among the ranks of WACS am WAVES the various miss Sub ways have been chosen. How Contest Started Miss Arlene Perlman assistan to the promotion manager of th ...
Apr 10, 1950 - been given a chance to qualify for active participation in a re serve corps All service personnel wacs WAVES SPARS MARINES whowould like to ... for former service college women and nurses need no prior service to apply for comissions under certain conditions The age limit for nurses is ...
May 16, 1950 - Back they would have to go to a spot where there was an officers club, with lights, a waxed floor, a load of beverages from a "fat cat" plane, and, worst all, a shipment of wacs army nurses, and, In the case of the deep Pacific, such deightful critters as kiwis from New Zealand, ...
Jun 1950 - In June, 1950 American women were called involuntarily to service along with men. During the Korean conflict, Women's Air Force jobs ranged from airplane dispatchers to parachute riggers. Women Marines were able to step out of administrative jobs, but no ...
Jul 16, 1950 - y the Navy asked its nurse to volunteer All the women's services are far below legal strength The Wacs have about 7.000 compared with legal strength of 12000 the Waves 3200 compared with 7 600 and the Wafs 4.000 compared with 8.000 The Women Marines could legally increase present ...
Jul 25, 1950 - policies for the utilization of womanpower in the Department of Defense 20000 Now Serving Also included was a survey of the more than 20000 women now a permanent part of the three military services including the Wacs Waves Spars the Army Navy and Air Force Nurses and the Women Medical ...
Jul 26, 1950 - The young men go perforce into the army instead of the factory or the farm The young women become nurses or Wacs instead of wives and mothers as they might prefer The farmers produce not what they would prefer but what the war requires The factories do the same We cannot eat what we ...
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Jul 27, 1950 - Reservists ny wacs officers and enlisted en men should apply to the organ nance chaplains army nurses ses and women specialist corps ac cording to Col Hiram Tarkington commanding officer the Florida military district. Enlisted volunteers are needed dedin radar radio tank antiair air ...
Jul 30, 1950 - The Korean crisis found 22000 American service women — 7000 of them nurses — already in uniform, backed up by an estimated 25000 in the reserves. ... In addi tion, 4825 Wacs are training in organized reserve drills. No stranger to the rough out door life is the Wac director. Col. ...
Jul 30, 1950 - ... ... the latest trends in ladies fash ions No woman who joins the Wacs Waves or Marines to day need wear the short preNew Look skirts seen during ... be worn without a tie Since Waves and Navy nurses now wear the same uni forms all of them have two little pockets below the left shoulder ...
Jul 30, 1950 - 4.825 WACS are training in organized reserve drills. The two -year -old women in the Air Force) has 4.000 in uniform. About 200 are overseas, in Germany and Newfoundland, with . WASHINGTON, July 29-the Korean crisis found 22000 American service women —7000 of them nurses — already in ...
Jul 30, 1950 - Washington, July — WThe Korean crisis found 22.000 American service women— 7000 of them nurses already in uni form, backed up by an estimated 25000 In ... In ad dition 4.825 wacs are training in organized reserve drills. The two-year-old ( worn en in the air force) has 4.000 in uniform. ...
Aug 6, 1950 - The Korean crisis found 22.000 Ameri can service women — 7000 'of them nurses — already in uniform, backed . The armed forces made no distinction in sex ... In addition 4825 wacs are training in organized reserve drills. The two-year-old women in the Air Force) has 4000 in uni form. ...
Aug 8, 1950 - WASHINGTON Aug 0 Korean crisis found 22000 American service women i 7000 of them nurses already In uniform backed up by an estimated 25000 in ... These 7000 girls in khaki release about seven infantry battalions for combat duty In addition 4825 WACS are training organized reserve drills.
Aug 13, 1950 - Women reservists of the nurses and the wacs are not yet being called involuntarily. NATIONAL GUARD . Ground forces: Four divisions and two regimental combat teams have been called into service with lie army. Air units: No call-up of units of he air national guard has been ground support ...
Aug 13, 1950 - 22000 American service women— 7000 of them nurses — in uniform, backed up by an estimated 25000 in the reserves. The armed forces made no dis ... In addition, 4825 wacs are training in organized reserve drills. women in the Air Force) has 4000 in uniform. About 200 are overseas, ...
Aug 29, 1950 - THE out si. Someone has suggested that the Uniforms of the Waves Wacs and Army and Navy nurses have a lew more frills on them What do you think about it.
Sep 25, 1950 - The quotas assigned to the commands include: 6th Army— 26 WAC officers, 90 enlisted WACS , 98 nurses, 24 medical specialists. know that Claude Wood Co. of Lodi has the 30000 job of building additional parking areas up at the Donner Memorial State Park right atop the summit, ...
Sep 25, 1950 - There are 24 women in Utah who might be called up under the new Army order affecting reserve Wacs and nurses Capt Ernest Lehmann Utah Military District public relations officer said Monday Of this number 16 arc nurses six are Wacs and two are.
Sep 25, 1950 - Washington Sept 25 ins The army issued its first compulsory call up of women reserves to day by ordering 1644 WACS nurses and medical specialists to active duty The order affects 936 officers in the grades of lieutenant and cap tain and enlisted women All arc to report.
Oct 11, 1950 - As for the Army, its first call-up will bring 1.044 women back into uniform, Here's how they break down: 141 lieutenants and captains and 708 enlisted wacs 630 Army nurses and 145 officers in the Wornens Medical Service Corps All the enlisted WAC« will be back on duty by Nov. ...
Oct 11, 1950 - ... ... of women re servists, either officer or enlisted." As for the Army, its first call-up will bring 1.644 women back into uniform. Here's how they break down: 141 lieutenants and captains and 708 enlisted wacs 650 Army nurses and 145 officer in the Womens Medical Service Corps .
Nov 7, 1950 - No is starting today The membership of the post last year 1350 There are about 10000 persons in St Joseph and immediate vicinity eligible for member ship Attention will be given to securing memberships among nurses WAVES and wacs as with service In the armed forces arc eligible to ...
Jan 29, 1951 - ... ... was per formed in the American hospital in Paris one of the world's finest surgeons Dr Thierry De Martel Besides I had three beautiful nurses ... careful what you say about the WACS writes an exwac of Chicago If you get out of line three other exwacs and myself may decide to march ...
Jan 30, 1951 - Women are now wearing the uniforms of at least 30 countries From army nurses to typists from radio operators to actual combat troops they are ... Wacs Wafs and women in the navy in Australia Bulgaria Canada China Frances New Zealand and the Union of South Africa during the war When ...
Feb 14, 1951 - The women the country have failed to respond to the peals of the armed forces for nurses, Wacs, Waves and recruits for other branches Of course no one expects a woman to become a member of the combat forces but the demands being made on them for non-combat service is reasonable ' and ...
