Scrapbook and photographs, ca. 1942-1945.

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Scrapbook and photographs, ca. 1942-1945.

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Summary: This collection includes 11 officially released photos of U.S. Women in the Army Airforce Corps, 1943-1945, and one oversize scrapbook of newspaper clippings kept about the activities of Tucson women who served in the military during World War II. Photos are from Davis-Monthan Air Force base, Tucson, and include posed images of Air Force women at work in jobs held by women during World War II. These included working in clerical positions and in air traffic control or relaxing in the recreation room by listening to the radio, and reading, or at prayer in the base chapel. Some photos are of the women modeling the latest in their uniforms.

2 linear ft. (1 box)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7913646

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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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...

Freeman, Viola Pyle, d. 1991.

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Biographical note: Viola Freeman (Mrs. Safford Freeman), who lived with her husband and family in Tucson, kept a scrapbook about the activities of women in the military during World War II when her daughter, Dorothy, served in the WAACs. From the description of Scrapbook and photographs, ca. 1942-1945. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 643312579 Viola and her husband, Safford Freeman, moved to Tucson in 1913 as newlyweds. They homes...

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (Ariz.)

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