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KU student sheds light on WWII CO Girls movement
Kansas University doctoral student Rachel Goossen studies women who joined the wartime objector movement through CPS roles, including wives of COs, nurses and dietitians, and church college students who sought work beside men. She has contacted about 150 participants and plans to interview around 25, many faced poverty. several kept diaries and letters reveal their isolation and support networks during the war.
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