The role of women in the armed forces in the United States. A U.S. Army sniper fires a 1903 Springfield rifle on the Korean front during the Korean War. A woman in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) inspecting such a rifle in the U.S. Several Patton Tanks moving up a hilly road in Korean War. A WAC testing the turret of a Patton tank. U.S. Army women at desks as they work with Army men in an office. Picture depicts Molly Pitcher, wife of a fallen U.S. Revolutionary War artilleryman. Depiction of George Washington at desk. Depiction of Clara Barton, an American nurse with a wounded soldier. Reenactment of Clara Barton working with another women. A man holds the flag of the American red cross. Actual footage of a Wright Brothers aircraft in flight. Women in long dresses pushing an early model of car. A group of American soldiers in World War I running on a battlefield.. U.S. Army troops wearing gas masks and firing rifles from trench in World War I. American women war production workers assembling belts of machine gun bullets during World War I in a munitions factory in the United States. A nurse tending a wounded soldier. A woman nurse helping place a wounded soldiers into an ambulance in Europe, in World War I. Nurses in an operating theater in a hospital during World War I. Women march in victory parade at end of World War I. Women's suffrage demonstration by suffragists (sometimes called suffragettes) in front of the White House and then women and men entering a polling place to vote around time of of 19th amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart climbing down from an airplane. Swimmer Gertrude Ederle on an award stand. U.S. Navy Vought SB2U-2 planes in flight as they drop bombs. Scene of Pearl Harbor attack by Japanese during World War 2. Army nurses look out from deck of ship in World War II. Soldiers fire artillery. View of mountains and scenes of combat on islands in the Pacific during WWII. General Mark Clark awards nurse Silver Star medal. Repatriated Army nurses, who were prisoners, are loaded onto an aircraft by means of a fork lift. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation establishing the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). Secretary of State George Marshall and others witness the signing. Depiction of Godess Athena. Women volunteering for WAAC move in a line carrying bags. American women in military uniform marching. WAAC volunteers being processed. Women receive physical exams and receive inoculations. WAAC personnel being trained: working on X rays, in medical pharmacy laboratories, food service, and radio work. Women on board warships in World War 2.
The role of women in in the United States Army. A nurse helps an injured soldier in a hospital. A physiotherapist moves the leg of a soldier. A women dietitian works in the laboratory. View of Congress, on June 1948, during passage of the Women's Armed Services Act. Colonel Mary A. Hallaren being appointed as the first WAC officer in the regular Army of the United States. General George Marshall witnesses the appointment and swears in Sergeant Bates, as the first enlisted woman in the regular Army, as Colonel Hallaren witnesses. Women recruits arrive at WAC processing center by train. They get into a bus. Women enter the WAC training center. They are issued uniforms. Women being taught military matters in open air classrooms. WAC in close order drill, and donning gas masks.
The role of women in the United States Army. A sign reads ' WAC Bivouac area'. Women carry heavy packs and march. During 10 minute break, they sit on ground and talk. Women's Army Corps (WAC) personnel set up tents and line up for chow, eating from mess kits. Women play softball. A woman reads letter from home. A woman drinks from a canteen. Women exercise and do calisthenics. They learn unarmed defense tactics. WAC military police march in formation. A woman being interviewed. Women in classrooms being given career guidance. A woman works on the punch card machine. A man and a woman drafting. Women work in the kitchen. Women work in laboratories. A woman on X ray machine and a solider lying on the table. Dentists check soldier. A woman being commissioned as an officer. Women disembark from a ship. WAC assigned to Japan, Paris or Germany. Views of a Shinto shrine in Japan, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and people in Berlin walking through Brandenburg gate British Sector and heading to other side, as German police officers watch. Woman assists male officers in a meeting, as the men view early television screen. View of Patton tank on the move.
The role of women in the United States Army. A tent in snow. WAC maneuvers in arctic conditions.A woman soldier brings plates outside the tent. Women wash the plates. Women wear arctic protective gear. A woman wears skis. Women learn skiing. Women learn to wear ski shoes. A woman loads pack on the back of another woman. Women march on snow. Woman cook. Tokyo: Women site seeing. Woman in a hand rickshaw. Woman bargains with the shopkeeper. Paris: women walk in pairs. View of the Eiffel tower. Women view the statue of Venus de Milo. Women skiing. Women watch ice hockey. Germany: Women stationed near Garmisch-Partenkirchen ride in a mountain cable car and arriving at a mountain top station (this appears to be the wooden cable car from BadReichenhall to Predigstuhl Mountain, sometimes called the Grand Dame of the Alps). Women work in office. Women treat soldiers in dispensary. Nurse teaches soldier to walk. Woman take x ray of a soldier.
The role of women in army in the United States. The Women's Army Corps (WAC) band plays and marches during the 51st Birthday celebration of the Women's Army Nurse corps. A nurse treats a soldier. U.S. army general Matthew Bunker Ridgway speaks about the contribution of the army nurses in various fields.
The film 'The River' about Mississippi river in the United States. View of the rocky mountains. The volume of water increases in the course of the river from the rocky mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. Several views of the flow of water in the river. Trees along the river side. A waterfall.
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