WOMEN'S+ARMY+CORPS+(WAAC)+AND+GENERAL+GEORGE+MARSHALL--2

~Age: 28 ~D.O.B.: June 8, 1914 ~Hometown: New York, New York ~Married to Frankie Giovanni ~Ethnicity: Italian ~Occupation: WAAC Radio Operator**
 * __Angie Giovanni__

"Hello, my name is Angelica Giovanni and I'm on my husband's radio news show tonight. He wants to let the women of our country know what they can do to help our military from a woman's point of view and he wants me to tell it. So let us get on with it. First, let me tell you what I do. I'm a WAAC Radio Operator for the United States army (Danzer et al. 563). Although I do not work overseas, I do send information to our soldiers, radio operators overseas, our aircrafts, and our ships. I also recieve information from all of those places, as well ("Women's Army Auxiliary"). Now, for how the WAAC came about. Around ten months ago, Army Chief of Staff **General George Marshall** pushed for the assemblance of a **Women's Auxiliary Corps**, or WAAC for short. He wanted this because the military's needs were so great. He argued that there were many jobs that women could do that soldiers were doing instead. Then, on May 15, 1942, the bill creating the WAAC became a law. Members of the WAAC are given an official status and salary, but don't really get the benefits that the male soldiers get. Women volunteers serve noncombat positions, probably so the men don't have to worry about us women getting 'hurt'. These noncombat positions include nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, pilots (Danzer et al. 563), weather observers and forecasters, cryptographers, repairmen, sheet metal workers, parachute riggers, link trainer instructors, bombsight maintenance specialists, aerial photograph analysts, and control tower operators ("Women's"). Next month, Congress will open hearings on the conversion of the WAAC into the regular army ("Women's Army Corps"). Hopefully by July this year, the United States Army will drop the 'auxiliary' status and grant WACs full United States Army benefits (Danzer et al. 563). Well, that's all I have to say about out that. Don't forget to tune into my husband's evening news. I'm Angie G. and I'm out of here. Goodnight!"

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