Oral history interview with Patricia Keegan Delaney, 2001 May 1.

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Oral history interview with Patricia Keegan Delaney, 2001 May 1.

Interview covers early life, school experiences, and interviewee's military service and its relation to her opinions and non-military life.

Transcript: 33 leaves ; 28 cm.Sound recordings: 1 sound cassette (55 min.)

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United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve

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The United States entered WWII in 1941 and soon faced a serious shortage of manpower in the military. Congress, along with public interest and advocacy from various national organizations, forced the Department of the Navy (over considerable internal resistance) to start accepting women into their service to augment the many thousands of men already active in the war effort. On June 24, 1942, Congress passed an act to create a women's reserve as a branch of the Naval reserve; to be governed by ...

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