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Category: 1942

  • AND CIVILIAN DEFENSE,ARMY: WAAC’s First Muster

    The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps had openings for 450 officers. On the first day, bemused Army recruiting officers gave out 13,208 long, pink application blanks, explained 13,208 times that an applicant must be between her 21st and 50th birthdays* (no, she must not fib about her age), must be between five and six feet tall,…

  • GI Joe

    The term G.I. Joe is coined in a Dave Berger comic strip that appears in the new Army newspaper Yank. World War II: The Debut of G.I. Joe December 30, 2021 Posted by: Neely Tucker This is a guest post by Meg McAleer, a historian in the Manuscript Division. It ran in the Nov.-Dec. issue of…

  • Army Nurses Give Trousers A Try

    Source: “Army Nurses Give Trousers A Try.” Belleville Daily Advocate, 11 June 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/belleville-daily-advocate/127945949/

  • Our Own Poets – Hawaii

    Source: “Our Own Poets – Hawaii.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 12 June 1942, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/127793574/

  • Official Record: Uniform

  • 11 Navy Nurses Missing In Action

    Source: Associated Press. “11 Navy Nurses Missing In Action.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 14 July 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-globe-democrat/137093494/

  • Official Record: Sick

  • Medicine: Pioneers in Poison

    Two of the world’s greatest experts on poisons were given honorary degrees in medicine last week at Connecticut State Medical Society’s sesquicentennial celebration. The toxicologists: Dr. Alice Hamilton, 73, industrial expert and first woman professor at Harvard; Physiologist Yandell Henderson, 69, of Yale, inventor of the modern gas mask. For 30 years Alice Hamilton has…

  • Nurses Pay

    During the initial phase of the war, women who joined the military, except for Army and Navy nurses, typically received superior pay or status compared to the nurses. When the WAAC was created in May 1942, its members received higher salaries than the Army Nurse Corps. Those who enlisted in the newly formed WAVES of…