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June 12, President Harry Truman signed Public Law 625, the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, which allowed women to become permanent, regular members of the U.S. armed forces in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the recently formed Air Force. Prior to this act, women, with the exception of nurses, served in the military only in times of war.
WAC Air Controller painting by Dan V. Smith, 1943. The Women's Army Corps (WAC; / w æ k /) was the women's branch of the United States Army before 1978. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), on 15 May 1942, and converted to an active duty status in the Army of the United States as the WAC on 1 July 1943.
Inauguration of the Women's High School in Belgrade, first high school open to women in Serbia (and the entire Balkans). [79] United States Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi graduates from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1863, making her the first woman to graduate from a United States school of pharmacy. [114] [115] 1864: Belgium
“Feminists in the 1970s critiqued the exclusion and lack of recognition of women’s contributions to our society and campaigned for the inclusion of women in our history school curriculum, as ...
During World War II, over 350,000 women served in the United States Armed Forces as members of the Army's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (later renamed the Women's Army Corps), the Navy's WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and the Marine Corps' Women's Reserve. [27] [28] Of these, 432 were killed and 88 were taken prisoner. [27]
The first Navy woman completes Test Pilot School. [1] Around 200 U.S. Army and Air Force women are deployed to Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury. [1] LT Susan Cowar became the first woman SWO screened for XO afloat in the Navy. [7] Commodore Grace Hopper was the first woman spot promoted to Flag rank in the Restricted Line in the U.S. Navy. [7]
The Officer Education System (OES) is the progressive and sequential education and training process for officers in the United States Army that begins in the pre-commissioning phase and continues in schools through the basic entry level, advanced level, intermediate command and staff level, and senior level.
She had joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 and was honorably discharged in 1945, but continued to serve as an accountant and statistician. [232] Thirteen years later, she transferred to Kelly Air Force Base and retired. [232] California governor Jerry Brown proclaimed the third week of March as "Women's Military History Week". [233]