To experience this past exhibition, you may view it as a virtual exhibit online. The Dunn Museum is celebrating those who served with a new temporary exhibition Breaking Barriers: Women in the Military through June 13, 2021. Women's Army Corps disbanded in 1978 and all members were fully integrated into To serve within the military in regular, peacetime forces. The Women’s Armed Services Integration Act allowing a permanent place for women In 1948, for their superb service during the war, President Truman signed Nearly 150,000 American women served as soldiers in the Women’s Army Corps. Marking the 2nd anniversary of the creation of the Women's Army Corps. The Tower, December 29,ĭetails of the celebration at Fort Sheridan In New Guinea, Egypt, England and France. Their WAC comrades had been transferred overseas where they were serving Mary Jane (Lett) Lucas (top row, red star). The original company of WACs at Fort Sheridan on their two-year roll of honor, December 1944. Michigan, and WAC Company B commander at Fort Sheridan. Served as a WAAC recruiter in Washington, D.C., posted to Fort Custer, She had graduated from Officer Candidate Training at Fort Des Moines, At the time of her enlistment in Julyġ942, Osby was married, living in Chicago, and employed at the social securityīoard. Was posted to Fort Sheridan under the command of 1st Lt. November 1943, an African American WAC unit Lucas also worked with German prisoners of war, but was not allowed to speak to Laboratory’s principal activity was the chemical and bacteriologicalĮxamination of foods, including large quantities of canned evaporated milk,ĭried powdered milk, and cheese procured for the Armed Forces. Received more than 66,000 food and water samples from 1941 to 1945. Officers from the lab, and checking in thousands of samples. The Army’s Sixth Service Command Medical Laboratory at Fort Sheridan, driving Mary Jane Lucas Collection, Dunn Museum, 2012.20.39. Mary Jane (Lett) Lucas, bottom right, with Sixth Service Command Laboratory soldiers and WACs, circa 1944. Lucas met her Them protection as soldiers and if captured were eligible for rights given to
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This new designation was important as it gave women full military rank andīenefits for service injuries and allowed them to serve overseas. Seventy-five percent of the women enlisted. Army as a member of the Women’s Army Corps (WAACs) were offered the choice of an honorable discharge and return toĬivilian life or joining the U.S. With the passing of the bill to create the Women’s Army Corps. On July 3, 1943, the auxiliaries were officially given “active duty status” Stenographers, commissary, photo analysts, surgical assistants, lab assistants, The army quickly figured out how best to utilize theĮxtra "manpower." Duties for the women’s corps included: clerks, That the army “didn’t know what to do with us,” and was given a job as an usherĪt the post’s theater. Who recalled that the women auxiliaries were given a warm reception. Chicago Sun Staff Photo / Fort Sheridan Collection, Dunn Museumĭetachment of WAACs at Fort Sheridan was Mary Jane (Lett) Lucas (1921-2014), (Lett) Lucas aka "Jane" is right of center holding largeĭuffel. WAAC detachment arriving at Fort Sheridan on December 30, 1942. Knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation." The purpose of the WAAC was to make “available to the national defense the As an auxiliary unit, the women were limited to 4906) passed into law creating the Women’s ArmyĪuxiliary Corps (WAAC). With the support of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and General Marshall, on Mayġ5, 1942, Rogers’s bill (H.R. Not only were women needed in factories, but also in the Marshall,įoresaw a manpower shortage and understood the necessity of women in uniform to The bill stalled until the attack on Pearl Harbor on Decempropelled Introduced a bill in Congress in early 1941 to establish an auxiliary corps toįill non-combatant positions in the army. representative Edith Nourse Rogers (1881-1960) of Massachusetts, who These preparations included discussions onĪlong with men, women wanted to do their part to fight the threat of fascismĪnd many lobbied for a role in the U.S. needed to increase the strength of its’ military to As the warfront expanded throughoutĮurope and Asia, the U.S. Fort Sheridan Collection, Dunn MuseumĪmericans were in the tenth year of the Great Depression when war broke out inĮurope with Hitler’s invasion of Poland.
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