She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: women in the military

  • Calling All Nurses

    Source: “Calling All Nurses.” The Independent Woman, May 1943, pp. 138”“159.

  • Army & Navy – Stepsister Corps

    The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps will be a year old next week. It has been a hard year because it was the first, with the administrative aches and growing pains of any big, new organization. Director Oveta Culp Hobby announced that enrollment had reached 58,100 by mid-April. That unvarnished figure meant, at first sight, that…

  • Women of Two Wars

    Source: “Women of Two Wars.” Saturday Evening Post, 29 May 1943, pp. 26”“27.

  • 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…

  • America’s Pampered Husbands

    Source: Stern, Edith M. “America”™s Pampered Husbands.” The Nation, 10 July 1943, pp. 40”“42.

  • 16,000,000 Women At Work

    Source: Anderson, Mary. “16,000,000 Women At Work.” The New York Times Magazine, 18 July 1943, pp. 18”“29.

  • Angels in Long Underwear

    Source: Martin, Pete. “Angels in Long Underwear.” Saturday Evening Post, 31 July 1943, pp. 9-11”“36.

  • Personal Preparation for Overseas Duty

    Source: Personal Preparation for Overseas Duty, Medical Field Service School, 1943.

  • The Services Need More Nurses

    Source: “The Services Need More Nurses.” The Saturday Evening Post, 7 Aug. 1943, p. 104. https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1943-08-07_216_6/page/104/mode/2up?q=Nurses