Catherine Piccolo papers, 1942-1951, 1960-1976.

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Catherine Piccolo papers, 1942-1951, 1960-1976.

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Clippings, correspondence, military commissions and commendations, and miscellany relating to Piccolo's World War II service in the Women's Army Corps as director of classified files for the Manhattan Project, and to her involvement in civic, school, and church affairs in east St. Paul in the 1960s and 1970s.

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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...

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Piccolo, Catherine.

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Manhattan Project (U.S.)

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