Newspaper Clippings
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The newspaper articles in this section come from the State Historical Society of Iowa's clipping file on Fort Des Moines.
- WAAC Boomtown -1942 (
926 KB) - 1200 Women Ready to Spot Fire Bombs - May 7, 1942 ( 261 KB)
- 900 WAACs Leave Fort Each Week - November 21, 1942 ( 891 KB)
- Des Moines Tribune -January 11, 1943 ( 241 KB)
- 300 Seek to Enroll In Women Marines - February 27, 1943 ( 510 KB)
- Congressional Record Appendix - May 17, 1943 ( 519 KB)
- Des Moines Register, June 1, 1943 ( 930 KB)
- Correct Posture Specialty of WAC Corporal Weber - August 8, 1943 ( 165 KB)
- Army Oath For Officers Of the WAC -September 1, 1943 ( 791 KB)
- Passes Test To Join WASPS -September 14, 1943 ( 319 KB)
- Air WAC Recruiters Open Denver Office - November 11, 1943 ( 448 KB)
- Third All-Colorado WAC Unit Leave - November 26, 1943 ( 139 KB)
- All new WACS to be Trained at Des Moines - December 24, 1944 ( 288 KB)
- WAC Officer School Returns: First All-WAC Convoy Starts March 1, 1945 ( 2,010 KB)
- WAC NEWS: The Army gal's Publication - April 21, 1945 ( 906 KB)
- Col. Strayhorn To WAC Center - August 14, 1945 ( 247 KB)
- New WAC Commander Visits Fort Des Moines - 1945 ( 392 KB)
- Fort Des Moines Is made WAC Separation Center - 1946 ( 294 KB)
- Nurse Heroine of WWII Leaves City for Special Work - January 8, 1947 ( 66 KB)
- It's Been 10 Years: Convention of WAC Veterans -, July 1952 ( 2,446 KB)
- Letter to Register from former member of WAC - July 21, 1963 ( 361 KB)
- Dandelions on a Field of Memory - May 15, 1965 ( 445 KB)
- Early WAC Days - August 15, 1966 ( 248 KB)
- The Woman Colonel is Back Home -- January 24, 1967 ( 60 KB)
- She Recalls Days at Fort Here - July 2, 1969 ( 161 KB)
- Mary E. Kelly - approximately 1973 ( 39 KB)
- House Passes Legislation to Abolish WACS - August 1976 ( 64 KB)
- Top WAC Post Eliminated - February 8, 1978 ( 40 KB)
- That D.M. summer of 1942 and the 'petticoat corps' - March 10, 1980 ( 259 KB)
- Ex-WACS gather at Fort D.M. to mart start - June 3, 1984 ( 158 KB)
