Volume, , n.d. When WAC Was a Dirty Word
Related Entities
There are 2 Entities related to this resource.
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fg4k98 (corporateBody)
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...
Bertha Marie (Strittmatter) Clark
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68n112j (person)
Corporal Bertha Strittmatter was among the enlistees in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), later known as the Women's Army Corps (WAC). When WAC Was a Dirty Word is a personal account of her experiences as a WAC stationed at Stout Field, Indianapolis, Indiana, from the beginning of World War II to the German surrender. Included are anecdotes showing unfavorable attitudes towards WACs, and how these attitudes changed with the recognition of the WAC contribution to the war effor...
