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This book is a collection of war related comics, originally published in 1942. It includes WAAC comics. It was compiled by "King Features Syndicate".

2 Sheets of paper dolls from 1943. Notice that the uniforms use the cross epelets, meaning that the first pattern uniform for the WAACs is being used.

A photograph of the Des Moines Training Center in Iowa, with 2nd Lt Dominic Feliciotti and Captain Henry R. Fine.

This hobby hat is made with a khaki cotton and has reproduction bakelite buttons and an original officer's eagle insignia from the WAACs.

This blouse is a first pattern reproduction of the original WAAC blouses for officers. The epelets were worn across rather than up the shoulders, with hidden buttons on the pocket flaps. The material used originally was heavier than the later…

These buttons were made in 3 sizes out of a greenish brown bakelite. The largest size was used for overcoats, the middle for jackets and the smallest for pocket flaps and the side buttons on hobby hats. The larger two sizes have a metal button ring…

This pin was given to those who enlisted early in the WAACs.

Image from QMC Studies, Vol 12. This is the sketch for the first pattern utility bag for the WAACs.

Posters were used in recruiting offices, on bulletin boards, on buildings, and more. Posters were a quick and easy way to advertise that you could join the WAACs

This page illustrates the desires of the Army to keep the women feminine. Women were required to wear girdles and bras, as this handbooks states.