“Skirted Soldiers”: The Women’s Army Corps and Gender Integration of the U.S. Army during World War II
By Melissa Ziobro Prior to World War II, the Army occasionally used women in “gender appropriate” roles. For example, civilian women, often known as camp followers, cooked and performed other chores for soldiers during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, much as they had done for their men in times of peace. A few women acted …