European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse In it 1 4v occupational was Mary Betty Kuzmech and Betty Boyington take a sunday airing five wag years by Dorothy gees on May 2200 was still in Europe will Obj care the fifth anniversary of woman entry into tace army co Uncle sa1ts sob in in a carts i an in has passed tace the Day five Yean ago when president Rootvelt signed the Bill admitting women to a place in the when the women Anny corps Marks its fifth birthday May twelve thousand was still in service Wilt pause to re member the anniversary and total up the score of their experience in War and in some respects it is an important Day Lor All american for charted the course of bombers on who worked on the Manhattan project and kept the secret of the atom who cabled the German who tended the switchboard at Potsdam and translated at earned for american women one of most important roles in their country years Ajo american women mint Ariy in the Crino Linean Bustle age sighting wan had always been a male there were precedents for feminine soldiers of americas revolutionary Margaret who took her husbands place at a Cannon in the defense of fort Washington and today lies buried at West Point by 1942 world War u was truly a global embracing both sexes As Well both and in Europe women were taking an Active part manpower Short Britain had called up women to Aid its Navy and air in France women fought with the resistance in jobs As dangerous As in the soviet Union women were in the lines and flying combat astonished Amer ican red army were often but in the United states when the first plans for a women army corps reached the ears of a sceptical there were plenty of articulate critics to declare that woman place in time was just where it had always rolling bandages or knitting the army want sure it Finda feminine component an embarrassing what will we do with wailed Many a regular army want special wont eat the same food or obey the same therell be feuds in the Barracks and the Quarter master will be kept Busy supplying hankies to mop up emotional out and of course no male Soldier would serve under a woman but confident leaders in washing both men and pushed the wac introduced by Congress woman Edith Nourse of Mas and on May months after Pearl women army auxiliary corps was officially its purpose was to make available for the National de sense the skill and train Ings of american its Emblem was the head of Pallas Dess of womanly of Victory in time of creation of the wac was a tentative move women did hold the same rank As men in the nor did they share the Privi Leges and benefits of the it first woman commissioned was the new wac director Oveta Culp who received a rank equivalent to that of a colonel nobody was quite sure just How the new soldiers in skirts would turn out that except the women continued on next po0e turn the Page for pictures of was in Europe
