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Autograph book with Mary McLeod Bethune signature, 1945 (facsimile)
Mamie (Echols) Williams Collection

Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) recruiter 3rd Officer Fern McGee with unidentified WAAC enrollees, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.

Women’s Army Corps Lieutenant Dorothea Johnson gives oath of enlistment to Esther Aguilar and Virginia Herrera as WAF (Women in the Air Force) Sergeant Ruth Fikes looks on, Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso, Texas, 1951.
Ruth (Fikes) Fiorillo…

Some of the first black nurses to serve in the US Army, standing outside their quarters at Camp Sherman, Chillocothe, OH