1. WAC, WAVE, SPAR, Nurse Corps Abby England

2. ● 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

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

4. ● Navy Nurse corps- did not serve in the fields

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

7. Bibliography http://www.rochestergeneral.org/~/media/Images/Manually%20Migrated/Cadet%20Nurse%20Corp s%20%20TrainasaNurse.jpg http://www.teachingushistory.org/lessons/WomenWWII.html http://www.womensmemorial.org/H&C/History/wwii.html http://www.warandgender.com/2_fig005.jpg http://www.warandgender.com/2_fig006.jpg http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Women_in_Military_Service.aspx https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c5/30/3c/c5303ce3ca6b9217084be01c204f5a35.jpg http://f.tqn.com/y/womenshistory/1/S/F/8/victory_waits.jpg