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This is a newspaper clipping from the December 9, 1944 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, mentioning Grace Thorpe's WAC service.

This is a 1943 service photograph of Blackfeet woman Minnie Spotted Wolf, the first Native American woman to enlist in the MCWR.

A scene from the John Ford classic The Searchers. The film is the apex of both the Western genre and Ford's filmography. It shows the complex nature of Victory Culture in post-WWII.

The scene is between a Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards (John…

This is a humorous four-panel comic strip by Eva Mirabal starring G.I. Gertie attempting to get furlough for the death of her grandmother, despite the fact that the grandmother was still alive.

This is a fairly recent photograph of Sicangu Lakota woman Rose Blue Thunder, who served in the Army Nurse Corps.

War Manpower Commission poster stating "I'm Proud...my husband wants me to do my part!" with a man and a woman pictured

This is a photograph of Army Nurse Corps veteran Marcella Ryan LeBeau taken in the summer of 2016.

This is a WWII-era recruitment poster for the Women's Army Corps, declaring, "This is my war too!" as a rallying cry to mobilize and inspire women to join in the war effort. The poster features a white woman in her crisp army uniform standing against…

This is a recruitment poster for the WAAC circa 1942. A young, presumably white, woman stands in front of a WAAC marching formation. The poster played upon the idea that all woman should join in the war effort and do their fair share. This is…

This colored World War II-era poster was used as a recruitment tool for the Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES), or the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve. The white woman, wearing her Navy uniform, is saluting in a…