Polly Smith never carried a gun into battle. She wasn't shipped overseas for a tour of duty. But her role during World War II is remarkable nonetheless. As a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps ...

The June 1943 Signal Corps Information Letter listed out the requirements for the Fort Monmouth contingency of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps members, which included four officers and 344 auxiliaries, ...

Keenan – who lives at Masonic Village in Lafayette Hill – had majored in journalism and history at Iowa’s Grinnell College. Following her graduation in 1938, she returned to Des Moines and took a ...

Before women could be permitted to join the military, Congress, of course, had to have its say. “Take the women into the armed service? Who will then do the cooking, the washing, the mending, the ...

They were of the Army but not exactly in it. They wore khaki and lived in barracks on an Army post, but they weren’t really soldiers. They were members of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, and when ...

After a seven day blackout President Roosevelt came out of his self-made darkness this Tuesday, revealed himself in Mexico. He had toured the Southern states, visited a Marine base, a WAAC training ...