{"id":5687,"date":"2015-07-01T18:44:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2015-07-01T18:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T00:44:03","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-28-june-4-july-1943-the-united-states-womens-army-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5687","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 28 June&#8211;4 July 1943: The United States Women&#8217;s Army Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5686\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5686\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5686\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5686\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Wwac1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"WWII recruitment poster for the Women's Army Corps [Public domain]\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Wwac1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Wwac1-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Wwac1.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WWII recruitment poster for the Women&#8217;s Army Corps [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>In the USA this week in the war, on 1 July 1943, the Women&#8217;s Auxiliary Army Corps was renamed <em>the Women&#8217;s Army Corps<\/em> and the organization was granted full status.<\/p>\n<p>Possibilities for\u00a0employment within the WAC\u00a0included telephone operator, baker, seamstress, and also (expanding into the then more male domains) mechanic and armorer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite resentment from some male colleagues (and some male colleagues&#8217; wives) the WACs played an important role in the war, not only on home territory but also in Europe, North Africa and New Guinea. <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=4999\">General Douglas MacArthur<\/a> was a staunch fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the USA this week in the war, on 1 July 1943, the Women&#8217;s Auxiliary Army Corps was renamed the Women&#8217;s Army Corps and the organization was granted full status. Possibilities for\u00a0employment within the WAC\u00a0included telephone operator, baker, seamstress, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5687\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[893,894],"class_list":["post-5687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-wac","tag-womens-army-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}