{"id":7206,"date":"2022-04-20T04:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2022-04-20T04:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T08:05:32","slug":"a30-everything-but-carry-a-rifle-the-members-of-the-womens-army-corps-and-their-relationship-to-guns-during-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/a30-everything-but-carry-a-rifle-the-members-of-the-womens-army-corps-and-their-relationship-to-guns-during-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"A30: Everything But Carry a Rifle: The Members of the Women\u2019s Army Corps and their Relationship to Guns During World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1942, the United States government Women\u2019s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) was created to help alleviate expected manpower shortages for World War II. Converted to the Women\u2019s Army Corps (WACs) and officially made Army in 1943, the WACs performed duties across the United States and overseas in the Pacific, European, and Mediterranean theaters throughout the war. This thesis evaluates the government\u2019s official stance on the WACs use of and training on guns during WWII, how that stance changed during the war, what the general public knew and believed about how WACs handled guns, and the lasting impacts of early policies about women and weapons in combat zones. Photographs, the papers of Oveta Culp Hobby, US Army Air Force documents, articles from national and military base newspapers, previous historians examinations of the WACs, various propaganda materials, and oral histories of WACs that served during WWII provide the basis of this thesis. This thesis develops our understanding of how public perceptions and surrounding national culture can influence military policies. This paper examines the complex interaction between the realities of war, American ideas of femininity, and the presentation of WACs by the United States Army, government, and free press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Megan Snyder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Hamlin, History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1942, the United States government Women\u2019s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) was created to help alleviate expected manpower shortages for World War II. Converted to the Women\u2019s Army Corps (WACs) and officially made Army in 1943, the WACs performed duties across the United States and overseas in the Pacific, European, and Mediterranean theaters throughout the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[924,928,1,40],"tags":[1181,136,1250],"class_list":["post-7206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-talks","category-a23-33","category-projects","category-history","tag-history","tag-humanities","tag-womens-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbRpLx-1Se","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}