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Approximately 350,000 American women joined the military during World War II and they worked as nurses, drove trucks, repaired airplanes, and performed clerical work.
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The United States Department of Labor states that when examining the number of holes drilled per day in the aircraft manufacturing industry, a man drilled 650 holes per day while a woman drilled 1,000 holes per day
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The U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded .
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director of the Women’s Bureau, reported in January 1942 that about 2,800,000 women “are now engaged in war work, and that their numbers are expected to double by the end of this year
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Two merged groups of skilled pilots became the first women to fly American military aircraft, taking off from airfields at 126 bases across the United States to logistically relocate fifty percent of the combat aircraft during the war.
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the aviation industry saw the greatest increase in female workers. More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry, representing 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce (compared to just 1 percent in the pre-war years
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Public Law 238 granted full military rank to members of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, who were then all women
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During the Warsaw Rising of 1944, female members of the Home Army were couriers and medics, but many carried weapons and took part in the fighting
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the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (the only all African-American, all-female battalion during World War II) worked in England and France, making them the first black female battalion to travel overseas.