Virginia ('Ginny') Mae Hope flew airplanes for the Army Air Force's Weather Wing out of Patterson Field (Fairfield, Ohio) in 1943-1944. Scrapbook containing photos, military service orders, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia documenting Barry’s career as an officer in the Women’s Army Corps from 1942 to 1961. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996.Ĭorrespondence (1942-1948), clippings (1944-1945), photographs (1944-1945), military insignia and ribbons (1944-1945), military songbooks (1944-1945), and Air Force-issued guides and other printed materials (1944-1945) documenting a Minnesota woman’s service in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during World War II.

Women in the Military in WWII, edited by Paula Nassen Poulos. The files are especially rich in press clippings and photographs of WAVES.A Woman's War Too: U.S. Series II contains publicity materials and news files, and mainly covers postwar activities.

Songs, information on etiquette, and material on WAVE reunions. Reports on planning, administration, training, and discipline Series I is arranged according to subject and contains primarily wartime and postwar materials, such as: These records contain information on the WAVES from 1942 to 1948 and on their subsequent activities and reunions through 1972. By October 1948, both officers and enlisted women were sworn into the regular Navy. After the war the Navy requested legislation for the inclusion of women within its permanent structure. Legislation ultimately provided for one WAVES captain and unlimited numbers at lower ranks. Naval Reserve to permit women volunteers to serve within the continental United States.

The WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) branch was created in 1942 when Congress authorized the Women’s Reserve of the U.S. These records, collected by the Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Women, Office of the Chief of Naval Personnel, offer women’s studies scholars and military historians an invaluable tool for researching the increasingly important role of women in the military. Published in cooperation with the Operational Archives Branch of the Naval Historical Center.

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