Women’s Army Volunteer Corp | |
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Active | August 1942 – 1945 |
Country | United States |
Branch | U.S. Army |
Type | Paramilitary |
Role | Secretary Vehicle operator |
Size | 400 |
Part of | Women's Army Corps |
Commanders | |
Field Director | Mrs. Marjorie S. Breffeilh |
The Women's Army Volunteer Corps was an organization within the Women's Army Corps in which women could serve as office assistants or military bus drivers.
The Corps was formed in 1942 by women employees of the Office of the Military Governor, and numbered 400 personnel.
References
- "Hawaii War Records Depository HWRD 1329". Hawaii War Records Depository Photos. University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- "American Archives Month - Diversity, A Part of the American Dream". October 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- Stentiford, Barry (4 June 2002). The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century. Texas A&M University Press. p. 151. ISBN 9781585441815.
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