Army Historical Series

THE WOMEN’S ARMY CORPS, 1945–1978

Bettie J. Morden

Army Historical Series
CMH Pub 30-14, Cloth; CMH Pub 30-14-1, Paper
1990, 1992; 543 pages, illustrations, bibliographical note, glossary, appendixes, index

GPO S/N:008-029-00215-9

The Women's Army Corps makes a significant contribution to women's history and the history of the Army. Bettie J. Morden weaves the ideas and moral attitudes that existed in the middle decades of the twentieth century to chronicle thirty-three years of WAC history from V-J Day 1945 to 20 October 1978, when the Women's Army Corps was abolished by Public Law 95-584 and discontinued by Department of the Army General Order 20, with the WAC officers assimilated into the other branches of the Army (except the combat arms). She provides readers with a comprehensive picture of WAC growth and development and the transformation in the status of Army women brought by the advent of the all-volunteer Army and the women's rights movement of the seventies.

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