Author: United States. Army. United States Forces, European Theater. General BoardPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Study of the Women's Army Corps in the European Theater of Operations
Author: United States. Army. United States Forces, European Theater. General BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Study of the Women's Army Corps in the European Theater of Operations
Author: United States. Army. European Theater of Operations. General BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Women's Army Corps
Author: Judith BellafairePublisher: Army Center of Military History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Impact of the Women's Army Corps on the European Theater During World War II
Author: Eliza Sunshine KnutsonPublisher:
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Category : Women in war
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Women's Army Corps
Author: Mattie E. TreadwellPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
The Women's Army Corps
Author: Mattie E. TreadwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Reports of the General Board, United States Forces, European Theater
Author: United States. Army. European Theater of Operations. General BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978
Author: Bettie J. MordenPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105093565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
After yearsout of print, this new and redesigned book brings back the best and most complete history of the Women's Army Corps. Loaded with history, tables, charts, statistics, photos, personalities, and many useful appendices (including a history of WAC uniforms), The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978 is must reading for anyone who served those years in the Army as well as for those who want a complete history of the modern-day military. Author Bettie Morden served from 1942-1972 and she used her experience and access to people and records to compile the definitive reference work. Col. Morden is a graduate of the WAC Officers' Advanced Course (1962); Command and General Staff College (1964); and the Army Management School (1965). She has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.
The Army Nurse Corps
Author: Judith BellafairePublisher:
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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race
Author: Brenda L. MoorePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814755224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Moore has made an incredible discovery. This book will be a major contribution to military studies, African American studies, and women's studies.--Booklist"Drawing on the testimony of former members of the unit, Moore recounts its formation, training and service in the European theater of operations in 1945-46, highlighting the discrimination women faced because of their race and gender. . . . An important contribution to African American and gender studies . . . "--Publishers Weekly"A rich, comprehensive study."--Philadelphia New Observer"This work fills the void that has been created by scholars of military institutions. It represents an original analysis of the experience of women of African descent who served their country in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Her robust analysis of their feelings, motivations and experience within the military provides the reader with a moving tale of accomplishments of black women during a critical point in the history of the country. Professor Moore's separation of race and gender effects in the book is excellent, and brings out the fact that women of African descent must be seen in their own historical light if one is to understand their unique history. This book makes a significant contribution to military sociology, gender studies, American studies, and race and ethnic relations."--John Sibley Butler, The University of Texas at Austin, author ofEntrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and EconomicsA fascinating account of black women in the armed forces in World War II. We are indebted to Brenda Moore for recording this story while these women are still with us. Moore gives powerful new insights for African American studies, gender studies, and military history.--Charles Moskos, Professor of Sociology Northwestern UniversityTo read about the Black women of the famous 6888th is to re-imagine World war II--a good thing to do in the 1990s!--Cynthia Enloe, Professor of Government Clark UniversityI would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part.--Gladys Carter, member of the 6888thTo Serve My Country, to Serve my Raceis the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas.While African-American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African-American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. Under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the black press, and even President Roosevelt, the U.S. War Department was forced to deploy African-American women to the European theater in 1945.African-American women, having succeeded, through their own activism and political ties, in their quest to shape their own lives, answered the call from all over the country, from every socioeconomic stratum. Stationed in France and England at the end of World War II, the 6888th brought together women like Mary Daniel Williams, a cook in the 6888th who signed up for the Army to escape the slums of Cleveland and to improve her ninth-grade education, and Margaret Barnes Jones, a public relations officer of the 6888th, who grew up in a comfortable household with a politically active mother who encouraged her to challenge the system.Despite the social, political, and economic restrictions imposed upon these African-American women in their own country, they were eager to serve, not only out of patriotism but out of a desire to uplift their race and dispell bigoted preconceptions about their abilities. Elaine Bennett, a First Sergeant in the 6888th, joined because "I wanted to prove to myself and maybe to the world that we would give what we had back to the Un