WOMEN #4a Contents Women's Army Corps, WWII....................p.2 WAFS/WASP: Women Ferrying Pilots, WWII.....p.7 Virginia Hall: Allied Agent, WWII..........p.9 .....p.10 See also: women4 USAMHI Women-WWII RefBranch dv Sep 88; Jun 92 WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS, WWII A Working Bibliography Contents General/Miscellaneous......................p.1 Specialized Aspects Administrative.........................p.2 Training...............................p.2 Uniform................................p.3 Other..................................p.3 Personal Narratives/Biogs..................p.3 Unit Histories/Places......................p.4 Note.......................................p.5 GENERAL/MISCELLANEOUS Greenberg, Margaret H. "A Debt to Democracy, A Date with Destiny." Army 37 (May 1987): pp. 55-58 & 61. Per. Hasenauer, Heike. "From WAAC to Regular Army." Soldiers (May 1992): pp. 28-32. Per. Herman, Victor J. Winnie the WAC. Phila: McKay, 1945. 119 p. D7452H47. McCann Coll. "Women in Uniform," 1938-1944. Arch. Brochures and clippings of WWII, plus a personal letter by a WAC. Morden, Bettie J. "Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: The Wartime Expedient That Became an Institution." Army (May 1992): pp. 42-45 & 48. Per. _________. The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978. Wash, DC: CMH, 1990. 543 p. UA565W6M67. See Chap 1 for overview of WWII period. Shea, Nancy. The Waacs. NY: Harper, 1943. 243 p. UA565W6831. Treadwell, Mattie E. "Establishment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps." Mil Rev XXVIII (Feb 1949): pp. 3-16. Per. WAC, WWII p.2 _________. The Women's Army Corps. In USAWWII series. Wash, DC: OCMH, 1954. 841 p. D769A533v8pt2. U.S. Army. Troop Info Support Unit. The Women's Army Corps: Twenty Years of Service (1942-1962). Mimeo, 1962. 5 p. UA565W6A315. U.S. War Dept. WAC Life. Pam 35-3, May 1945. 191 p. Pams. Weatherford, Doris. American Women and World War II. NY: Facts on File, 1990. 338 p. D810W7W42. See Chaps 3-7. SPECIALIZED ASPECTS - ADMINISTRATIVE U.S. Army. Recruiting Office, Cleveland, OH. "WAAC Recruiting Plan." Mimeo, Jun 1943. ca 150 p. UA565W6A3. _________. Service Forces. Procedures for Enlistment in the Women's Army Corps, AUS. ASF Manual M-208, Oct 1944. 25 p. Attic. U.S. War Dept. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Regulations (Tentative), 1942. Wash, DC: GPO, 1942. 21 p. UA565W6W65. Public law 554, 77th Cong, estab WAACE (4 p.), followed by the tentative WD reg dated 28 May 1942. _________. Bulletin 25, (May 1942), Sec I & II, Bull 54 (Nov 42), Sec VI & Bull 12 (Jul 43), Sec II. - TRAINING Pollard, Hey Lady, cited below. U.S. War Dept. Mobilization Training Program for WAC Detachments in the Field. MTP 35-2, Oct 1944. 4 p. Attic. _________. Mobilization Program for WAC Enlisted Personnel of the Army Service Forces. MTP 35-10, Jul 1944. 14 p. Attic. WAC, WWII p.3 _________. The WAC Officer: A Guide to Successful Leadership. Pam 35-2, Feb 1945. 65 p. Pams. _________. WAC Physical Fitness Rating. Training Circ 40, Jun 1944. 7 p. TC. And TC 62, Oct 44. 7 p. _________. W.A.C. Field Manual, Physical Training. FM 35-20, Jul 1943. 131 p. FM. - UNIFORM Barnes, Elinor S. "A Wardrobe for the WAAC." Study, Phila Quartermaster Dept, Mar 1943. 210 p., photos & inserts. UA565W6B37. Burns, Robert W. "History of Nurses and WAC Uniforms in the European Theater, 1942-1945." In Chap 42 of Passing in Review, comp by Robert M. Littlejohn, 1954-1955. 32 p. D76975L55chap42. Risch, Erna. A Wardrobe for the Women of the Army: WMC Historical Studies No 21. Wash, DC: Hist Sec, Office, QM General, 1945. 156 p. UC34A2no12. - OTHER Allen, Ann. "The News Media and the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: Protagonists for a Cause." Mil Affairs 50 (Apr 1986): pp. 77- 83. Per. Analyzes media coverage of the first service women 1942-43. PERSONAL NARRATIVES/BIOGS Corum, Elaine. "WAC Reunion: Memories of World War II." Army (Feb 1990): pp. 54-59. Per. A radio operators reminisce. WAC, WWII p.4 Dyer, George B. and Charlotte. Papers. 2 bxs. Arch. Corresp & clippings cover his WWII service in CIC, ETO, and hers as WAC. Green, Anne Bosanko. One Woman's War: Letters Home From the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1946. St Paul: MN Hist Soc, 1989. 308 p. D807U6G74. Medical asst various US hospitals. Harvey, Edna M. Papers. 1 bx. Arch. Pers corresp & scrapbook gathered from her 1943 WAC assignment to Spec Services Div, Camp Patrick Henry. Olson, Betty. Diary. Arch. Pollard, Clarice Fortgang. Hey Lady! Uncle Sam Needs You! Booklet, Phoenix, AZ, 1985. 23 p. UA565W6P58. Her training Ft Oglethorpe, GA, Spring 1943. Prior, Billy. Flight to Glory. Belmont, CA: Poncer, 1985. 41 p. D8115P72. Redman, Betty Beyers. How Memories are Made: The Journal of an Air WAC. Hicksville, NY: Exposition, 1975. 181 p. UA565W6R42. Samford, Doris. Ruffles and Drums. Boulder, CO: Pruett, 1966. 164 p. UA565W6S2. Smith, Kathleen E.R. Lieutenant Colonel Emily U. Miller: A Biography. Natchitoches, LA: Northwestern State U, 1984. 174 p. U53M54S65. 1942-1965 WAC career narrated. Stansbury, Jean. Bars on Her Shoulders: A Story of a WAAC. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1943. 276 p. PZ43S7908Bar. Fictional account of training WAAC officers at Des Moines, IA. Incls actual roster of first class. Watson, Georgia B. World War II in a Khaki Shirt. Moore Haven, FL: Rainbow, 1985. 155 p. D811W376. By one of first officers. UNIT HISTORIES/PLACES Peachie, Bernice R., et al. AAF, WAC Detachment, Eagle Pass Army Air Field. San Angelo, TX: Newsfoto, 1944. #1801-E-1944. WAC, WWII p.5 Schwartz, Dorothy H., et al. History of WAC Detachment, 9th Air Division, September 1942-September 1945. Harrisburg, PA: Mil Serv Pub, 1964. 198 p. #1801-9-1946. U.S. Army Forces, Western Pacific. G-1 WAC Branch. WESPAC WACS, 1942-1946. Booklet, 1946. 48 p. #1801-WP-1946. Pictorial memories. _________. 1st WAC Det. WAC Detachment No 1, Camp Van Dorn, MS, 1944. Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Pub, 1944. #1801-1-1944. _________. 6719th WAC Plt. As We Were: A History of the 6719th WAC Headquarters Platoon (OVHD) Which Served With the Headquarters of the U.S. 12th Air Force from January 1944 through August 1945. n.p., 1945. 31 p. #1801-6719-1945. _________. Women's Army Corps: WAC Branch No 7, Army Administration Schools, Alpine, Texas. Baton Rouge, LA: Army & Navy Pub, n.d. 47 p. UA565W6A6. "Women Drivers at San Antonio." QM Rev XXII (Mar-Apr 1943): pp. 49 & 137-138. Per. NOTE: Male attitudes toward servicewomen were polled in Nov 1943, with results appearing in: Stouffer, Samuel A., et al. Studies in Social Psychology in World War II. 4 vols. Princeton, NJ: UP 1949-1950. U22S8. See Vol I, The American Soldier: Adjustment During Army Life, pp. 44-46, and Vol IV, Measurement and Prediction, pp. 128-133 & 244-245. USAMHI Women - WWII RefBranch dv Sep 88; Sep 92 WAFS/WASP: WOMEN FERRYING PILOTS, WII A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources WAFS (Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) - activated 15 Sep 1943 as part of the AAF's Air Transport Command. Later redesignated as WASP (Women Air Service Pilots). Cole, Jean Hascall. Women Pilots of World War II. Salt Lake City: UP of UT, 1992. 165 p. D790.6C64. Johnson, Ann R. "The WASP of World War II." Aerospace Hist (Sum- Fall 1970): pp. 76-82. Per. Keill, Sally Van Wagenen. Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines: The Unkown Heroines of World War I. NY: Rawson, Wade, 1979. 334 p. D790.6K45. Incls epilogue on postwar efforts for official recognition and benefits. LaFarge, Oliver. The Eagle in the Egg. Boston: Riverside, 1949. 320 p. D810T8L2. See Chap XII. Noggle, Anne. For God, Country, and the Thrill of It: Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1990. 160 p. D790N63. Schaffter, Dorothy. What Comes of Training Women for War. Wash, DC: Amer Council Educ, 1948. 223 p. U4086S35. See Chap IV. Scharr, Adela Riek. Sisters in the Sky. Gerald, MO: Patrice, 196. 524 p. D790S334A3. Stewart-Smith, Natalie J. "The Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II." MA thesis, Wash State U, Pullman, 1981. 81 p. D790.6S78. Strother, Dora D. "The W.A.S.P. Training Program." Am Avn Hist Soc Jrnl (Wntr 1974): pp. 298-306. Per. WAFS/WASP: WOMEN FERRYING PILOTS, WWII p.2 Treadwell, Mattie E. The Women's Army Corps. In official USAWWII series. Wash, DC: OCMH, 1954. 841 p. D769A533v8pt2. See pp. 285-86 & 784-85. U.S. Air Force. Hist Div. The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol VI: Mena and Planes. Ed by Wesley Craven & James Cate. Chicago: UP Chicago, 1955.5 808 p. D79-0A47. See pp. 678-80 & 765. _________. Vol VII: Service Around the World. Chicago: UP Chicago, 1958. 666 p. D790A47. See pp. 528-36 & 634-35. _________. Hist Research Div. USAF History of Women in the Armed Forces: A Selected Bibliography. Maxwell AFB, AL, Jun 1976. 18 p. Z7963S55A42. Verges, Marianne. On Silver Wings, 1942-1944: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. NY: Ballantine, 1991. 250 p. D790.6V47. "Women Airforce Service Service Pilots, 1942-1944." Plate 624. Mil Collect & Hist (Summer 1988): pp. 80-81. Per. Depicts uniform. NOTE: WASP Guidon Two months before the Dec 1944 disbanding of the WASPs, the War Dept authorized a distinctive flag and guidon: "ultramarine blue with a vertical propellor, 7 inches in length superimposed at the center of a pair of wings 10-1/2 inches from top to tip. Above the insignia will be the number of the group or depot and below it the number or depot and below it the number or letter of the squadron. Insignia, numerals, and letters will be golden orange." Source: U.S. War Dept. Flags, Colors, Standards, Guidons, Streamers, Silver Bands, Tabards and Automobile Plates; Description and Use. Army Reg 260-10, Oct 1944. pp. 20 & 26. AR. Incidentally, a photo of a WASP graduation class at Avenger Field depicts a unit guidon. See the non-paginate photo section of Keil's Those Wonderful Women (cited above). According to her photo credits, the photo came from an original on file in the US Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. USAMHI Women - WWII RefBranch dv 1985 NOTE: VIRGINIA HALL, ALLIED AGENT, WWII Virginia Hall, a U.S. citizen and foreign correspondent for the New York Post, worked for British SOE in France, 1941-1942, and later for the American OSS. She returned to France in Mar 1944, allegedly parachuting into Brittany while carrying her artificial leg named "Cuthbert." William Donovan, head of OSS, recommended her for the DSC to Pres Roosevelt in a 12 May 1945 memo and stated that she would be the first woman in the war to receive the award. Although no mention of her award was found in our sources, MILPERCEN Awards Branch (WO Thayer) has a list of OSS award recipients that includes Virginia Hall's name and indicates presentation of the DSC on 27 Sep 1945. She died in 1982. On her SOE activities: Cookridge, E.H. (pseud.) Inside SOE: The Story of Special Operations in Western Europe, 1940-45. London: Baker, 1966. 640 p. D810S7S558. See index and esp pp. 125-126, 246 & photo on 8th page of photo insert following p. 304. _________. Set Europe Ablaze. NY: Crowell, 1967. D810S7S57. See index and esp pp. 70 & 99-100. Foot, Michael R.D. SOE in France. London: HMSO, 1966. 550 p. D802F8F6. See index and esp pp. 211, 222-223, 465 & 467. A photo of Hall appears on p. 196d. On the OSS connection: Donovan, William. Papers. Box 66 A, Item #50. Arch. Two-page memo, Donovan to Roosevelt. Ford, Corey. Donovan of OSS. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. p. 249. D810S8D55. Hymoff, Edward. The OSS in World War II. NY: Ballantine, 1972. pp. 244 & 305. D810S7H95.