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...
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 ...
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 members of the Navy as a member of WAVES well into the 1970s). After the passage of ...
'' . This paper presents an analysis on nearly a decade of negotiations South Korea and Japan engaged in during the 1990s regarding the issue of the Japanese military comfort women, which is necessary in searching for solutions to the issue. What has surfaced from the analysis is that there...
Women Employment Rise During World War I Largely ignored by the Government, women did not become involved in war work on a huge scale until after the first year of war. To begin with their growth in the workplace was confined to the munitions factories and voluntary work. However, women wa...
in steel plants, ammunition factories, and even the United States military. As the war progressed the number of male workers declined dramatically. Society had no choice but to turn to the mothers, sisters, and daughters ofour nationfor help. The results for each woman varied…show more ...
(She eventually had six husbands in total; divorcing the last in 1965 and remaining single for the last 35 years of her life.) Unfortunately the U.S. Military wasn’t open to using inventions from non-military people (they were also just lazy) and the technology wasn’t put to use ...
Please could you share what you found about British women working as nannies and cooks pre-WW2? That will be interesting to learn more about, and may spark responses from other readers. Regards, David Hi David, many thanks for… Permalink ...
Louisiana for basic training. After that he returned back to Brooklyn to live and continue to work on Wall St. while reporting for military duty monthly at the Armory in Manhattan. During Vietnam War he was called for active duty and sent to For Hood, Texas and then to For...
While some station commanders stubbornly refused to accept the context of women in uniform, or would not take seriously WAAF involvement in military activities, it was not long before many male officers would display great admiration for the superb bearing, coolness and courage that was displayed ...