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Hispanic Heritage Month: Women’s Army Corps
Source: “Hispanic Heritage Month: Women”™s Army Corps.” YouTube, U.S. Army Website Videos, 17 Sept. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1TB2oZufII.
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African-American Women in Army Aviation
Source: “African-American Women in Army Aviation.” YouTube, U.S. Army Website Videos, 18 Feb. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-YH7hlfjPg.
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Re: Grandma’s Heel……… to the best of my knowledge from Peter Paul Zeimet
She was in a wooden building and a bullet got her…………….. I think it was just a strafe attack. THERE WERE SEVERAL ADDITIONAL RAIDS ON HAWAII THAT ARE NOT IN history books. ???????????? THERE WAS EVEN A BOAT BOMBED WITHIN SIGHT OF THE GOLDEN GATE IN SAN FRANCISCO. I do NOT have a date of how close…
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Their War Too: U.S. Women in the Military During WWII. Part I
Their War Too: U.S. Women in the Military During WWII. Part I March 22, 2018 By Chucik, Posted In Military, Motion Pictures, U.S. Army, U.S. Army Air Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, Uncategorized, Women In The Military, Womens History, World War II March is Women”™s History Month, a great time to highlight important contributions made to our country by women. This year, we are focusing…
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Their War Too: U.S. Women in the Military During WWII. Part II
Their War Too: U.S. Women in the Military During WWII. Part II May 2, 2018 By Chucik, Posted In Films, Military, Motion Pictures, U.S. Army, U.S. Army Air Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, Uncategorized, Women In The Military, Womens History, World War II In part I of this two-part series, we discussed the role women played in the military during World War II by highlighting those who served…
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WORLD WAR II STAMP CORSAGE (C. 1942)
During World War II, Clair Bugg of Farmville became a kind of walking advertisement for the war effort: She wore this corsage made of 10-cent postal savings stamps. The conflict ”“ costing more than $4 trillion in today”™s dollars ”“ was the most expensive war in U.S. history. To finance this massive effort, the American…
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TIME CAPSULE: Pregnancy
TIME CAPSULE: Doris Weatherford, skillfully describes in her book American Women and World War Two the plight of the woman expecting a child. A pregnant woman simply had no right to work. Only six states had any regulations even addressing the subject of maternity leave and “comparatively few union contracts take cognizance of the pregnancy…
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HISTORY – EQUALITY: Why Four Black Women Stood Up to the US Army During World War II
November 11, 2021 – Earlier this year, the women of the 6888th Postal Battalion Directory got a step closer to finally receiving the recognition they deserve. The Senate passed legislation to award the only all-Black Women”™s Army Corps (WACs) deployed overseas during World War II the Congressional Gold Medal. The “Six Triple Eight” self-contained postal unit completed the…
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NEEDS SOURCE: Two-thirds of this country’s ‘war marriages’ were doomed to break up,” a figure of greatly exaggerated proportions. Other writers repeated
TIME CAPSULE: A well-known sociologist, predicted that “two-thirds of this country’s ‘war marriages’ were doomed to break up,” a figure of greatly exaggerated proportions. Other writers repeated his prediction. A year after the war’s end, Newsweek confirmed the bad news, announcing in dramatic language that “in 1945 there were 31 divorces for every 100 marriages…