Women's Army Corps papers, 1944-1945.

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Women's Army Corps papers, 1944-1945.

Letters to her family, holiday menus and programs, newsletters, clippings, photographs, and an article about WAC service in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

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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...

Dolan, Dorothea C., 1901 or 2-1967.

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Niagara Falls, N.Y. school teacher. From the description of Women's Army Corps papers, 1944-1945. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33841551 ...