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American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. Their services were recruited through a variety of methods, including posters and other ...
In 1977, WASP records were unsealed after an Air Force press release erroneously stated the Air Force was training the first women to fly military aircraft for the U.S. [97] [116] [60] [115] Documents were compiled that showed during their service WASP members were subject to military discipline, assigned top secret missions and many members ...
Opha May Johnson, first woman known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Henry Maston Mullinnix , rear admiral, U.S. Navy; USS Mullinnix was named in his honor ( Spencer ) John Poindexter , vice admiral , U.S. Navy, National Security Adviser to President Ronald Reagan, figure in the Iran-Contra affair ( Odon )
Campbell, D'Ann. "The Women of World War II" in Thomas W. Zeiler, and Daniel M. DuBois, eds. A Companion to World War II (2 vol 2015) 2:717–738; Cook, Bernard A. Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present (ABC-CLIO 2006) Cottam, K. Jean (1980). "Soviet Women in Combat in World War II: The Ground Forces and the Navy".
1950-1953: (): Women who were in the Reserves were recalled to active duty.More than 500 Army nurses served in various areas and theaters of the war. [1] [2]Captain Lillian Kinkella Keil, USAF, who had already made 250 evacuation flights (23 of which were transatlantic) during World War II, made 175 evacuation flights during the Korean War.
U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve, They are Marines,Uniforms and Equipment in World War II. Barnsley, UK: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-52671-045-1. National Archives and Records Administration (1996). Pouls, Paula Nassen (ed.). A Women's War Too: U.S. Women in the Military in World War II. United States: National Archives Trust Fund Board.
Mariana Drăgescu (1912–2013), Romanian military pilot in World War II; Margot Duke, Marchioness of Reading (1919–2015), society beauty who was one of the first women in Britain to get a pilot's license [24] Maxine Dunlap (1908–1977), first woman glider pilot and first woman glider club president in the U.S.
During Australia's participation in World War II, the Australian military created a sub-branch of each of its armed forces specifically for females. [19] In 1977, the Royal Australian Air Force was the first Australian service to fully integrate women. The Australian Army was next, in 1979, followed by the Royal Australian Navy in 1985. [20]