Women's Army Corps

(noun)

The women's branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on May 15, 1942 and converted to full status as the WAC on July 1, 1943. It was disbanded in 1978, and all units were integrated with male units.

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Examples of Women's Army Corps in the following topics:

  • Mobilization and the Development of the West

    • The Army established the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942, which served overseas in North Africa.
    • The WAAC was converted to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943 and recognized as an official part of the regular Army.
    • In 1943, the Women's Army Corps recruited a unit of Chinese-American women to serve with the Army Air Forces as "Air WACs. " The first two women to enlist in the unit were Hazel (Toy) Nakashima and Jit Wong.
    • The Marine Corps created the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1943.
    • Marine Corps were women.

  • Changing Roles for Women

    • The Army established the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942.
    • It was converted to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943, and recognized as an official part of the regular army.
    • The Women's Army Corps (WAC) recruited 50 Japanese-American and Chinese-American women and sent them to the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, for training as military translators.
    • In 1943, the Women's Army Corps recruited a unit of Chinese-American women to serve with the Army Air Forces as "Air WACs."
    • The Marine Corps created the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1943.

  • Hispanics in WWII

    • With the creation of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), predecessor of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), and the U.S.
    • In 1944, the Army recruited women in Puerto Rico for the Women's Army Corps (WAC).
    • After their basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the Puerto Rican WAC unit, Company 6, 2nd Battalion, 21st Regiment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, a segregated Hispanic unit, was assigned to the Port of Embarkation of New York City to work in military offices that planned the shipment of troops around the world.
    • As Hispanic female nurses were initially not accepted into the Army Nurse Corps or Navy Nurse Corps, many Hispanic women went to work in the factories which produced military equipment.
    • In 1944, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) decided to accept Puerto Rican nurses.

  • Changing Roles for Women

    • The Army established the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942, later converted to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943, and recognized as an official part of the regular army.
    • The Marine Corps created the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1943.
    • The first director of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve was Mrs.
    • Marine Corps were women.
    • Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau, U.S.

  • The American Rally

    • Victory gardens and the Women's Land Army of America were important contributions to food supplies during World War I..
    • Another wartime group, the Women's Land Army of America (WLAA), was created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military .
    • The WLAA was modeled on the British Women's Land Army.
    • However, opposition came from Nativists, opponents of President Woodrow Wilson, and those who questioned the women's strength and the effect on their health.
    • Describe how Victory Gardens and the Women's Land Army of America contributed to food supplies at home during World War I.

  • Women's Activism

    • The term "first wave feminism" describes the women's movements during the Gilded Age, which primarily focused on women's suffrage.
    • It focused on legal inequalities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage.
    • Many white women excluded black women from their organizations and denied them the right to participate in events because they feared that the racist attitudes of Southern voters would affect their support of the women's movement.
    • Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
    • During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army.

  • The Declaration of Independence

    • In 1776, revolution was fomented by Thomas Paine, who wrote Common Sense; and by Abigail Adams, who advocated for women's rights.
    • Paine donated his royalties from Common Sense to George Washington's Continental Army.
    • Abigail Adams was an advocate for married women's property rights and greater opportunity for women, particularly in respect to education.
    • Adams was particularly interested in what implications independence from Britain held for women and women's rights.
    • In this way, Republican Motherhood, though still relegating women’s contributions to the domestic, or private, sphere, raised the importance of women’s civic contributions on a national level and encouraged the further education of women.

  • Women in the Revolution

    • In this way, the Republican Motherhood, though still relegating women’s contributions to the domestic sphere, raised the importance of women’s civic contributions on a national level and allowed them greater influence in the public sphere.
    • In the longer term, the Republican Motherhood contributed to women’s involvement in abolitionism and women’s rights.
    • A handful of women felt so strongly about the revolutionary cause that they hid their gender and enlisted in the Continental Army.
    • These women included Hannah Snell, Sally St.
    • Other women involved themselves in military activities by concealing and delivering dispatches and letters through enemy territory for the Continental Army.

  • Yalta's Legacy

    • At that time, more than 200,000 soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West were serving under the high command of the British Army.
    • Many of these men and women were originally from the Kresy region of eastern Poland, including cities such as Lwow and Wilno.
    • Two years later, when Churchill and Stalin formed an alliance against Hitler, the Kresy Poles were released from the Gulags in Siberia, formed the Anders Army and marched to Persia to create the II Corps (Poland) under British high command.
    • In reaction, 30 officers and men from the II Corps (Poland) committed suicide.

  • The Western Frontier

    • The Army (especially the Army Corps of Engineers) was given full responsibility for facilitating navigation on the rivers.
    • Army expeditions up the Missouri River from 1818-25 allowed engineers to improve the technology.
    • For example, the Army's steamboat "Western Engineer" of 1819 combined a very shallow draft with one of the earliest stern wheels.
    • Still, many women were more independent than their eastern counterparts and worked in partnership with their husbands.
    • These women began to organize churches, school, civic clubs, and other community programs to promote family values.