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Free a Marine to Fight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 42

Free a Marine to Fight

Contents: early planning; the first Women's Reserve (WR); early training: Holyoke and Hunter; training: Camp Lejeune; Reserve Officer's Class; specialist schools; uniforms; style; officer Winter and Summer dress; Summer service; Summer dress; handbags, shoes, and hose; utilities and exercise suits; grooming, handkerchiefs, and undergarments; aviation; matching skills to need; WR employment; administration of women; assistants for the WR; authority; assignment and housing; punishment; overseas; WR Band; epilogue: war's end. Maps and photos.

Free a Marine to Fight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Free a Marine to Fight

Marines in World War 2 Commemorative Series. Discusses how women Marines served in noncombat billets during World War 2. The title "Free a Marine to Fight" means that women Marines served in noncombat jobs so that male Marines could fight in battles. The Marines first began to recruit women after the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942. States that 17,672 women were serving in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in June 1945. Illustrated with many black and white photographs.

A History of the Women Marines, 1946-1977
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

A History of the Women Marines, 1946-1977

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Women's Army Corps makes a significant contribution to women's history and the history of the Army. Bettie J. Morden weaves the ideas and moral attitudes that existed in the middle decades of the twentieth century to chronicle thirty-three years of WAC history from V-J Day 1945 to 20 October 1978, when the Women's Army Corps was abolished by Public Law 95-584 and discontinued by Department of the Army General Order 20, with the WAC officers assimilated into the other branches of the Army (except the combat arms). For the most part taking a chronological approach, Morden focuses on the interaction of plans, decisions, and personalities that affected the WAC directors as they pushed and pr...

The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09-26
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

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.

Women Vietnam Veterans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 636

Women Vietnam Veterans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-09-24
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories, by Donna Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, chronicles the participation of American military women during the Vietnam War. This little-known group of an estimated 1,000 women from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force left its mark in Vietnam from 1962 to 1973. They served in a myriad of duties from intelligence analysts, flight controllers, clerk-typists, translators, physical therapists, dietitians and communications specialists among many others. Our Untold Stories allows the women to speak for themselves about their experiences, and, for the first time ever, brings names, facts and figures together in one literary work. The purpose of the book is...

The Reserve Marine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

The Reserve Marine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Oxford Companion to American Military History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 951

The Oxford Companion to American Military History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1450

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 810

Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986-11
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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