Women's Army Volunteer Corps Explained

Unit Name:Women’s Army Volunteer Corp
Dates:August 1942 – 1945
Country:United States
Branch:U.S. Army
Type:Paramilitary
Role:Secretary
Vehicle operator
Size:400
Command Structure:Women's Army Corps
Commander1:Mrs. Marjorie S. Breffeilh[1]
Commander1 Label:Field Director

The Women's Army Volunteer Corps was an organization within the Women's Army Corps in which women could serve as office assistants or military bus drivers.[2]

The Corps was formed in 1942 by women employees of the Office of the Military Governor, and numbered 400 personnel.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hawaii War Records Depository HWRD 1329. Hawaii War Records Depository Photos. University of Hawaii at Manoa Library . 22 November 2017.
  2. Web site: American Archives Month - Diversity, A Part of the American Dream. October 2009. 6 June 2010.
  3. Book: Stentiford, Barry . 4 June 2002 . The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century . Texas A&M University Press . 151 . 9781585441815.