Women’s Army Corps

During Women’s History Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Mary Rasmuson, the fifth director of the Women’s Army Corps.

Harriet Daniel served with the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in WWII. She was a teletype operator in Italy from 1943 to 1945. For her wedding, her roommate sewed her wedding dress from a parachute.

For National Native American Heritage Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Sophie Yazzie, who served during World War II.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Audrae Gandreau who served in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II from 1945 to 1947.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Velma M. Bippen Jesse, who joined after Pearl Harbor and served during World War II from 1942 to 1945.

On July 7, 1943, Martha Putney completed her training and two months later was assigned as a supply officer, responsible for maintaining provisions.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Women’s Army Corps Veteran Helen Horvath. Helen served during World War II from 1943 to 1946.

Millie Dunn Veasey was a member of the “Six-Triple Eight” Central Postal Battalion, the only all-black, all female battalion to serve overseas during WWII.

Pfc. Rose F. Puchalla was one of the nearly 150,000 [...]

Msgt. Frieda M. Lambrecht was a Veteran of both World [...]

Geneva Fields Ford served during World War II in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, where she worked in motor pool dispatch and transferring special orders.

Carmen was the first Puerto Rican woman to join the Women's Army Corps, where she served as interpreter. She spoke five languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French.

Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, she later moved to New York City and graduated from Julia Richman High School in the Bronx. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Carmen joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. During the time that the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was being established, they were looking for bilingual Hispanic women to fill career fields such as cryptology, communications and interpretation.