WAC, WAVE, SPAR, Nurse Corps Abby England. ● Only a few thousand women in the Nurse Corps before Pearl Harbor attack ● Almost 400,000 women served in.

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WAC, WAVE, SPAR, Nurse Corps Abby England

● Only a few thousand women in the Nurse Corps before Pearl Harbor attack ● Almost 400,000 women served in and with the armed forces in all of WWII—a number that exceeded total male troop strength in 1939 ● Women’s Army Corps ● Women of the US Navy ● US Coast Guard Women’s Reserve ● US Marine Corps Women’s Reserve ● Army and Navy Nurse Corps ● Women’s Airforce Service Pilots

Women’s Roles in the War typists file clerks auto/aircraft mechanics air traffic controllers nurses

● Navy Nurse corps- did not serve in the fields

Questions 1.How many women were enlisted in the war? 2.What were some of the jobs the women had?

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