WAC, WAVE, SPAR, Nurse Corps

Abby England

● Only a few thousand women in the Nurse Corps before Pearl Harbor attack● Almost 400,000 women served in and with the armed

forces in all of WWII—a number that exceeded total maletroop strength in 1939● Women’s Army Corps ● Women of the US Navy● US Coast Guard Women’s Reserve● US Marine Corps Women’s Reserve● Army and Navy Nurse Corps● Women’s Airforce Service Pilots

Women’s Roles in the War

typistsfile clerks-------auto/aircraft mechanicsair traffic controllersnurses

● Navy Nurse corps- did not serve in the fields

Questions1.How many women were enlisted in the

war?2.What were some of the jobs the

women had?

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