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    • Woman playing violin

    • Woman playing violin

    • Title taken from caption.
      > "[Woman playing violin and another playing piano for audience of military men]."

      Over 150,000 American women served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. The first WAAC training center was...

    • UAF-2003-175-2
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • WAC postal clerk

    • WAC postal clerk

    • Title taken from caption.
      "28 Apr 45. WAC postal clerk."

      Congress opened hearings in March 1943 on the conversion of the WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) into the Regular Army. The WAC bill was signed into law some four months...

    • UAF-2003-175-15
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • Printing

    • Printing

    • Title taken from caption.
      "13 Apr 45. [WACs setting type for printing]."

      World War II changed the lives of women in significant ways. The war not only drew American women to the labor force, but it also brought them into the organized...

    • UAF-2003-175-16
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • Postal Clerks

    • Postal Clerks

    • Title taken from caption.
      "28 Apr 45. WAC (Women's Army Corps) postal clerks." The war time Army had been scattered around the world, and as a result Women's Army Corps did perform a myraid of services, such as forwarding and censoring mail and...

    • UAF-2003-175-22
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks

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