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In 1942, Charity (Adams) Earley became the first Black commissioned officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), later the Women’s Army Corps (WAC). In 1944, the WAC selected Earley commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory…

Following the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government, because of a perceived national security risk, rounded up 120,000 American citizens of Japanese descent and sent them to Mid-West and West Coast internment camps.…

Hazel Ying Lee, born in Portland, Oregon, earned her pilot’s license at the age of 19. She went to China in 1933 to become a pilot for the Chinese Air Force but was rejected because of her sex. Returning to the United States, Lee later joined the…

Marcella (Ryan) LeBeau, a member of the Two Kettle Band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II, treating D-Day battle casualties. While stationed in Liege, Belgium, LeBeau remembers a German plane…

United States Marine Corps Photo of Minnie Spotted Wolf, Blackfeet in article "Indians in the News."

A monthly publication by the United States Department of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Indians at Work contained articles, photographs and…

The idea for the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) was formed prior to the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The strained relations between Japan and the United States deemed a need for an intelligence unit with knowledge…

Carmen Contreras Bozak, Technician 4th Grade, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)/Women's Army Corps (WAC), 1942-1946; the first Hispanic woman in the WAC.

Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA. She became the first African American accepted into the Army Nurse Corps.

Lt. Florie E. Gant...tends a patient at a prisoner-of war hospital somewhere in England.

The Hirano Family, left to right, George, Hisa, and Yasbei with picture of a United States serviceman. Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona.