When WW2 began, it was finally apparent that demands for aviators exceeded the supply. Colonel William H. Tunner of the USAAF Air Transport Command and Love drew up a proposal for female pilots to deliver military aircraft from factory to military air bases; on 5 Sep 1942, Love was named t...
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After the war, the US Congress passed the Women's Armed Services Integration Act (Public Law 625) on 12 Jun 1948, allowing women to gain permanent status in all military branches of the United States, which put the WAVES program into obsolescence (although people still referred to female memb...
Some women in World War 2 volunteered to serve as military nurses. Other women in WW2 joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) branch of the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Coast Guard featured SPARs, an all-female unit, and the ...
Often the sharply restricted participation of women as combatants in war raised questions about a female's ability to command. (Example: Some believe that Margaret Thatcher HAD to show herself to be a forceful military commander in asserting England's right to the Falkland Islands). Most simply...
She was discharged the same year, after serving a total of five years in the military. Eileen and Walter Blakely (Bonnie and Clyde) c. 1958. Photo courtesy Barbara Johnson. Until her friend Barbara Johnson sent us her obituary, we had never seen this photo of Eileen and Walter as “...
I picked “women in uniform” as the theme for the first reading list since they are such popular heroines. Whether they are in the military or part of the police force or other first responders, there’s something about a woman in uniform that makes us swoon. Maybe it’s their integrity...
corporation off the map and returning the Outer Circles to those for whom it is home. But before Arkadia can be restored, the monstrous war machine that DeWitter is creating must be neutralized. Force will never be enough to defeat overwhelming military might. It requires something more ...
It was the first settlement organization for African-Americans in the US. The Settlement existed in a separate structure on the family property, and soon had clubs for children, women, and the elderly. In 1908 Janie helped to create the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Please join us in saluting our veterans, those men and woman who selflessly served our nation. Scroll through this gallery of over 500 photos submitted by our readers from 2015 through 2023. They are the faces of the men and women who served inVietn...