Women+in+the+War

Congress first allowed women to join the military in May 1942, when it established the Women's Auxillary Corps (WAAC) and appointed Oveta Culp Hobby, an official with the War Department, to serve as its first director. A little over a year later the army replaced the WAAC with the Women's Army Corps (WAC). Women were aloud to enlist in the airforce as piolits, shortly after this the women of america were aloud to enlist in navy, marines, in addition to serving in these new organations, another 68000 women nurses in the army and navy.