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America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.--Tiger Woods [1]
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Date: 2025-03-09
"More than 350,000 American women joined the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Women had been serving as Army and Navy nurses for decades, but World War II led to new opportunities for women to enlist in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. In 1942, Congress created the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES, part of the US Navy), and the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. The Coast Guard established a women’s unit known as the SPARS. Women aviators flew with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) unit beginning in 1943. Women in uniform performed more than 200 different jobs during their service. Four hundred and thirty-two servicewomen died and eighty-eight were taken prisoner. After the war, the military discharged most women in uniform and disbanded some of their specialized units. Legislation formally allowing women into the military was passed in 1948. Women first entered the military service academies in the 1970s and were only allowed to fly combat missions or serve on Navy combat ships in the 1990s." (AIOverview)
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