Papers, 1902-1993

United States. Army. Women's Army Corps

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The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the US Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943. Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby, the wife of a prominent politician and publisher in Houston, Texas. About 150,000 American women served in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. They were the first women other than nurses to serve with the Army. While conservative opinion in the leadership of...

Edwards, Julia

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RUTH (THOMPSON) PEIRCE, 1911-1994

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Ruth Milne (Thompson) Peirce was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., on June 24, 1911, to Daniel and Mary (Finnerty) Thompson. The fifth of eight daughters, she grew up in Jamaica Plain and Brighton, Mass. She worked in admissions for Brigham Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital (1932-35), and as the assistant manager at the Café Rouge, Statler Hotel, Boston, Mass. (1935-42). In 1941, RTP was recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to work as an undercover agent at the Bos...

Mary (Finnerty) Thompson

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Marie Campagna

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Falvey, Catherine E.

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John Peirce

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Lewis, Deborah

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Willenz, June A.

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Liberty Loan Committee.

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John Hines

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...

Treadwell, Mattie E.

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Sculpture Curler

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Hess, Feril

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