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
- 1200 Women Ready to Spot Fire Bombs - May 7, 1942
- 900 WAACs Leave Fort Each Week - November 21, 1942
- Des Moines Tribune -January 11, 1943
- 300 Seek to Enroll In Women Marines - February 27, 1943
- Congressional Record Appendix - May 17, 1943
- Des Moines Register, June 1, 1943
- Correct Posture Specialty of WAC Corporal Weber - August 8, 1943
- Army Oath For Officers Of the WAC -September 1, 1943
- Passes Test To Join WASPS -September 14, 1943
- Air WAC Recruiters Open Denver Office - November 11, 1943
- Third All-Colorado WAC Unit Leave - November 26, 1943
- All new WACS to be Trained at Des Moines - December 24, 1944
- WAC Officer School Returns: First All-WAC Convoy Starts March 1, 1945
- WAC NEWS: The Army gal's Publication - April 21, 1945
- Col. Strayhorn To WAC Center - August 14, 1945
- New WAC Commander Visits Fort Des Moines - 1945
- Fort Des Moines Is made WAC Separation Center - 1946
- Nurse Heroine of WWII Leaves City for Special Work - January 8, 1947
- It's Been 10 Years: Convention of WAC Veterans -, July 1952
- Letter to Register from former member of WAC - July 21, 1963
- Dandelions on a Field of Memory - May 15, 1965
- Early WAC Days - August 15, 1966
- The Woman Colonel is Back Home -- January 24, 1967
- She Recalls Days at Fort Here" - July 2, 1969
- Mary E. Kelly - approximately 1973
- House Passes Legislation to Abolish WACS - August 1976
- Top WAC Post Eliminated - February 8, 1978
- That D.M. summer of 1942 and the 'petticoat corps' - March 10, 1980
- Ex-WACS gather at Fort D.M. to mart start - June 3, 1984