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11 Secondary Source Facts


 * The Women's Auxilary Army Corp's was made apart of the army on July 1,1943
 * In WWII, 140,000 women served as WACS
 * Women's reserve of the Navy, the Coast Guard Women's Reserves, and the Marine Corps stayed a regular part of the military until 1978
 * edith Nourse Rogers, introduced the legislation creating the corps
 * WAC replaced WAAC
 * Japanese American Women were accepted for service into the WAC
 * Women trained in Hawaii in 1943 with about 60 Nisei women
 * WAC worked on Army bases doing things in the medical treatments, in the Public Information office, and as the typists, clerks, and researchers.
 * The Nisei women were not trained to interrogate but to be translators of the Japanese language.
 * Women could free men from combat
 * Many questions arose with respect to how existing army policies and procedures would apply to the WAAC's
 * WASP stands for The Women Airforce Service Pilots.

__Caption:__ These women in this picture were instructors on electrically operated 50-caliber machine gun turrets. Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services also known as the WAVES. Were really neccessary and needed during the wartime. WAVES performed duties such as intelligence, aviation, and navigation. There was a shortage of men so women practically did everything except direct combat.

__Caption:__ The War Production Board published this poster. This poster shows that women were strong enough to work in the factories and still be pretty. This poster appealed to women and men, the reason being is because men needed to except the fact that tey needed the women. Also husband's didn't want their wives to work because it made them look like they couldn't provide for their family. There were lack of jobs and workforce, so thats why women were needed. Of the 16 million men and women in the U.S. armed forces during World War II, most were in the army; only about a quarter were in the three sea-borne forces.2 At the navy's height in 1945, it enrolled 3,405,525 personnel.3 The Marine Corps peaked in 1944 at 475,604 men and women.4 The Coast Guard at its height numbered 175,000.5 __Caption__: This exert is about the men and women in the different sections of the army. Women were included in all of these populations above of people. This shows that women were needed in most areas and aspects of the military. Women were obviously strong enough and up to par for the task of the military. Also in order to be excepted by the men they had to work hard.
 * Military Life: The Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, and the War in the Pacific: September 3, 1939–September 9, 1945**