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Army Women:
Highlights
1781–83
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With Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s announcement
lifting gender restrictions on all military jobs, we take
a look at the role of female soldiers throughout U.S.
history. Here are some highlights.
1941–45
Library of Congress
Deborah Sampson of Massachusetts enlists as a
Continental Army soldier under the name Robert
Shurtliff and serves in the Revolutionary War.
1942
Library of Congress
U.S. Army
More than 200,000
women serve in the
Army during U.S. involvement
in World
War II; 16 are killed in
action. Among those
captured by the
Japanese in the
Philippines in 1942
and held as POWs are
67 Army nurses; they
are released in 1945.
National Archives
Congress creates
Women’s
Army Auxiliary
Corps, or WAAC,
later renamed
WAC (Women’s
Army Corps).
June 11, 1970
1972
Anna Mae Hays,
left, Army Nurse
Corps, and WAC
director Elizabeth
P. Hoisington,
right, are promoted
to rank of
brigadier general.
Army ROTC
opens to
women.
U.S. Army
U.S. Army
U.S. Army
1976 1978
U.S. Army
Women matriculate
into
U.S. Military
Academy and
other service
academies.
Bernard H. Schopper
Congress abolishes
WACs,
leading to direct
assignment
of female
soldiers to noncombat
branches of the
Army.
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