Women have served in military conflicts since the American Revolution, but World War II was the first time that women served in the United States military in an official capacity. MNHS call number: Digital copy of the article. "Private Bosanko Goes to Basic: A Minnesota Woman in World War II," by Anne Bosanko Green. The collection includes clippings, orders, letters, photographs and memorabilia, flight training information from the 318th Army Air Corps Ferry Training Command at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, student-pilot rating books, and her flight log from 1941-1944. Virginia ("Ginny") Mae Hope flew airplanes for the Army Air Force's Weather Wing out of Patterson Field (Fairfield, Ohio) in 1943-1944. Scrapbook containing photos, military service orders, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia documenting Barry’s career as an officer in the Women’s Army Corps from 1942 to 1961.
Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996.Ĭorrespondence (1942-1948), clippings (1944-1945), photographs (1944-1945), military insignia and ribbons (1944-1945), military songbooks (1944-1945), and Air Force-issued guides and other printed materials (1944-1945) documenting a Minnesota woman’s service in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. Women in the Military in WWII, edited by Paula Nassen Poulos.
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