Papers, 1941-1947.

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Papers, 1941-1947.

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Papers of Martha Selvik, who was a captain in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) both during and just after World War II, serving as a military historian and at the United States Mission to Norway in Bergen.

0.8 linear ft. (2 archives boxes and three oversized folders)

nor,

eng,

Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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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...

Selvik, Martha.

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Knutson, James,

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Selvik, Torstein

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