In this week's Vintage Tribune: The WAAC — later shortened to WAC, for Women’s Army Corps — and the WAVES were created in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
A group of WAACS are seen making their way to an embarkation port en route to Africa in 1943.
But there was nothing halfhearted about the honor extended to Mary Stephenson and Ruth Woodworth, the first WAACs stationed in Chicago. “Enlisted men saluted them smartly, after a slight pause for uniform identification,” the Tribune reported. But sexism remained, as seen in coverage of the new female units. When the Tribune reported that “Third Officer Mary Richards of 1400 Lake Shore Dr. was among the first to try on the WAACS heavy khaki clothing at the Fort Des Moines training center,” it also noted that women at the center had been “waiting eagerly for a chance to try on smart winter garb.”
In England, where food was in short supply and rationed, the locals generously invited American GIs to their holiday dinner tables, the Tribune’s Larry Rue reported from London. A.Z. Shirk, of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, handles a truck tire as part of her training at Fort Des Moines in Iowa in 1942.Advertisement
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