Nurses from the Tuskeegee Army Air Field Hospital. Part of their training included ground school instruction but they never actually flew in the war.
The 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage on Display March 1 - 8:
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Woman’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, the 19th Amendment will be on display from March 1 to March 8 at the National Archives Building.
The 19th Amendment guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation. Beginning in the mid-19th century, woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered radical change…
Keep reading at: Prologue: Pieces of History » The 19th Amendment on display at the National Archives
I’m afraid you’ll have to be a bit less vague? Why would who join what?
Workers at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland testing machine guns, 20mm aircraft caynon, sighting on a Bofors AA gun, and a prototype carbine, 1942
Four workers of the Vega aircraft plant in Burbank, CA taking their lunch break out by the bomb shelter, August 1943.
Former waitress Eastine Cowner, now scaler at the Kaiser Shipyards, working on the Liberty Ship SS George Washington Carver, 1943
20-year-old Mary Josephine Farley working on her Wright Whirlwind aircraft motor that she rebuilt, October 1942
The Duchess of Windsor fulfilling her role during WWII as President of the Bahamas branch of the Red Cross (1940)
“After almost fourteen months overseas in England and France the Wacs pictured above were happy to be home. They arrived from France on Friday, March 8th and landed at Staten Island Terminal of the New York Port of Embarkation. They were among the last contingent of the 6888th Central Postal Directory to return from overseas. 3/13/46.”
