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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The women of the 6888th would wear their coats and boots in the warehouses to protect themselves from the cold, rotting food and nesting mice. News Today's news ...

Officer candidates of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps start off their day with a calisthenics drill wearing fatigue uniforms at Fort Des Moines on Aug. 8, 1942. (AP) Perspective by Einav ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–1941. Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, R-Mass., introduced a bill in Congress to establish the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. As World War II raged across Europe and the Far East, Rogers was ...

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 ...

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.