Soldiers in Skirts WAAC Signal Corps Training News
The photograph shows two women at a WAAC signal corps training school highlighting radio code operation repair teletypewriter switchboard installation and maintenance. WAACs train for three to six months and then enter active duty with potential advancement to officers' training. One camp is Daytona Beach Florida.
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Camp le' New River
N. C
Camp Lejeune
America
Waac Signal Corps
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
WAAC
Signal Corps
Officers’ Training School
Waacs
Grace Terry
Daytona Beach
Fla
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1769 B for Sized Frock
An ad notes Barbara Bell Pattern No 1769 B for sizes 36 through 52. It promises a neat, well cut house frock style with slimming effect and specifies fabric needs for size 38 with short sleeves at 435 yards of 35 inch material.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1790 B Ensemble Ad
Simple and smart day long wear designed for sizes 10 through 20. Includes bust measurements from 28 to 38. Size 12 requires 434 yards of 35 inch fabric and 9 yards ric rac.
Recreation Kits For Soldiers From War Department
A Collier's report notes that twelve types of recreation kits were sent to troops by the War Department. Kit C includes 2,000 books, kit J features sound picture projectors and films, B-1 radios and phonographs, D provides violins guitars and a small piano, A covers boxing gloves and team equipment, and F contains cards dice poker sets and table games.
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War Department
Collier’s
Weapons captured by U S forces studied at Aberdeen Proving Grounds
The Army Proving Grounds at Aberdeen Maryland holds a sample of every enemy weapon captured by American troops. Ordnance officers forward material from the fighting fronts to be tested and studied.
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Army Proving Grounds
Aberdeen
Collier’s
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