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Are you a girl with a Star-Spangled heart?
This World War II-era colored poster was used as a recruitment tool for the WAC (Women's Army Reserve) after its creation in 1943. A pretty, young white woman stands in her army drab against a background of a fluttering American flag, representing…
Athletes in Uniform
This is a newspaper clipping from the December 9, 1944 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, mentioning Grace Thorpe's WAC service.
Cecelia Mix and John Collier
This is a Dec 16, 1944 photograph of PFC Cecelia Mix and John Collier reading from scripts in a radio broadcast of "First Americans" in Washington, D.C., in connection with a war bond drive.
Do your part. Join the WAAC
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…
Enlist in the Waves, Release a Man to Fight at Sea
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…
Eva Mirabal
This is a 1944 photo of artist and WAC Eva Mirabal posing by one of her paintings.
Evelyn Elizabeth (Hungry) Cummings Stover
This is Evelyn Stover's service photograph from her time as a WAC during WWII.
G.I. Gertie, 1944
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.
Grace Thorpe Is In Salt Lake
This is a clipping from the August 27, 1943 edition of the Ogden Standard-Examiner. Grace Thorpe had just been shipped from Fort Oglethorpe to Ogden, UT.
Marcella Ryan LeBeau, 2016
This is a photograph of Army Nurse Corps veteran Marcella Ryan LeBeau taken in the summer of 2016.