Papers, 1931-1964
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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...
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Thérèse Bonney, internationally-known war correspondent, photographer, and philanthropist, was born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in California. She attended the University of California, and received her M.A. in Romance Languages from Harvard. After earning a Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in 1920, Bonney took up residence in Europe and worked as a photographer and photographic researcher. With the outbreak of World War II, Bonney became a war journalist and published a series of photog...
