[Women's Army Corps group portrait from the Virginia Gill papers] [graphic]. 1943.

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[Women's Army Corps group portrait from the Virginia Gill papers] [graphic]. 1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43882097

Group portrait of women in uniform, including Virginia Gill, taken at the Des Moines, Iowa training center (5th company, 1st regiment).

1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.

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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...

Gill, Virginia Tracy Hunter

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