CONGRESS APPROVES WOMEN’S AUXILIARY ARMY CORPS (WAAC)
Washington, D.C. • May 14, 1942 Early in 1941 Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts informed Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall that she intended to introduce a bill in the U.S. Congress to establish a volunteer women’s Army corps, separate and distinct from the existing Army Nurse Corps. After long debate—and after…