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Battle for Girdles
Source: “Battle for Girdles.” Business Week, 19 June 1943, pp. 91”“92.
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VMAIL: Sunday June 20.1943
Sunday June 20.1943V-Mail to Cyril Fuller Father”™s Day Greetings To the Finest Dad in the World From the kids in the Pacific Aloha -Jimmie and Dooley
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Medicine: Health in the Army
White-haired, hale & healthy Major General Norman T. Kirk, since June head of the Army’s huge (90,000 officers, 450,000 enlisted men) Medical Corps, last fortnight told Manhattan newspapermen that the U.S. Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war. Some of his specific points on Medical Corps problems, solved…
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LETTER: June 28.1943
June 28.1943Dear Mom and Dad, Just a line or two, how are you all, doing ok ah hopes? James and I got a room by the grand help of Mrs. Wilkie. It”™s with a nice lady from Australia and the room is small but very pretty. It has wooden walls (as most the buildings have…
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TIME CAPSULE: Women in the Labor Force
Before World War II, most women employed were typically young and unmarried. However, around two million women took up clerical roles during the war, and approximately one million joined the federal government workforce. By the war’s end, the female labor force consisted mostly of married women over 35. Notably, the number of married women working…
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NEWSREEL: YouTube – WASP Pilot: Bernice “Bee” Haydu
Source: U.S. Army Website Videos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7TQIKHNBkQ&list=PLitjSv4Sbrky2aPMSRuhRHALvBuDkhBq4&index=43
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New WAC Goal Set At Half Million
Source:”‚“New WAC Goal Set At Half Million.” Tulsa World, 6 July 1943, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/tulsa-world/137971622/ NEWSREEL: The president has signed the bill changing the WAAC to the Women”™s Army Corps (WAC), giving its members full Army status and commissioned rank. TIME CAPSULE: Once more, the recently arrived WACs took precedence over the well-established group of…
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official record: Sick