1. Women in Military During
WWII
By:
Ashley Bishop
And
Chelsie Beck

2. Women in Military
Since December 1941,
350,000 women served in
the United States Armed
Forces. They had their own
branches of services,
including:
– Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
(later the Women's Army
Corps or WAC),
– the Women Airforce Service
Pilots (WASP),
– the Women Accepted for
Volunteer Military Services
(WAVES).
– SPARS stood for the Coast
Guard motto: quot;Semper
Paratus - Always Ready.quot;

3. Training
Women's training was
much like men's and
Included parade drill,
the discipline of barracks
life, and classes in
military methods.

4. Women in Military
About seventy percent of women who served in the military during
World War II held traditional quot;femalequot; jobs
– Typists
– Clerks
– Mail sorters
– weather forecasting
– parachute packing
– mail sorting
– Photography
– dog and pigeon training
– Few women served as cooks or bakers, but could only serve other
women.

5. Women in Military
Although these jobs may not
have been as glorified
as those of the men fighting
on the front lines,
women were essential in
maintaining the tools
necessary in total warfare. By
filling office jobs that
would otherwise be held by
men, women freed
more men to fight.

6. Women in Military
WAC's sent overseas and
working as
radio/telephone operators
and translators, received
the enthusiastic support
of General Eisenhower
who saw them as a key
to successful
communications requiring
the knowledge of many
languages. Women also
performed nursing and
clerical functions.

7. Irene
Englund
Stands in
front of a
plane she
piloted
during
WWII

8. Harkness
Love
28 years
old when
she
became
leader of
the WAFS

9. Jacqueline
Cochran
(right) and
the
Woman's
Flying
Training
Detachment
.

10. flight
crew of
Boeing B-
17 quot;Flying
Fortressquot;

11. WAVES
Membership in the
WAVES (Women
Accepted for Volunteer
Emergency Service), a
unit of the US Naval
Reserve, reached a peak
of 86,000 in August,
1945. The navy
attempted to lure the
brightest women and, like
the Army, utilized them in
all lines of work

12. SPARS
The women's auxiliary
unit of the Coast
Guard in WW II,
enlisted less than
10,000 women.

13. Women Marines
The 20,000 women who
enlisted in the marines despite
the quot;tougher training coursequot;
than in other branches of the
service were given no catchy
name. They were just women
marines. During training, they
were introduced to all aspects
of marine combat including
firing antiaircraft guns and
dropping from parachute
towers. Women worked in
225, mostly clerical, military
specialties.

15. The End

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