Local women are working together to help support the Salvation Army Painesville Corps. The corps is working to start a new women’s auxiliary. Painesville Corps Major Alma Riley said the ...

Organizational plans for the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps, which will enlist women for non-combatant service with the army have been completed. They will be put into effect as soon as President ...

BELL COUNTY – Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Annie Riggins was one of an estimated 11,000 military women stationed in Vietnam during America’s decade-long conflict there. Assigned to work in ...

Recognizing the potential of women to fill non-combat roles, Congress established the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on May 14, 1942.

T he 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 ...

She enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 and was sent to U.S Army Fort Jackson during War World II. “She was assigned to work at post library number two, to free up a man to go ...

May 15 is the anniversary of the 1942 founding of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The corps was initiated by U.S. Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers to ensure that women who served in the Army would … ...

Nancy Smith walked in her mother’s footsteps 78 years after her mother served as a major in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) at Ladd Field.

In May 1941, U.S. Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts introduced a bill that would establish a women’s corps as an auxiliary to the Army.