This episode continues to explore the decision to integrate women into the Marine Corps. From 1946 to 2021, women achieved significant milestones. Not only were more studies produced, but commands started to provide recommendations based on experience from real-world implementation.
27 out of the 43 Military Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) Women were Authorized to Serve (Highlighted Cells)
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Brewer, L. (1818). The Female Marine, Or, The Adventures of Miss Lucy Brewer. author.
Dessez, E. C. (2021). The first enlisted women, 1917–1918 (1St Edition). Dorrance.
Marine Corps Pay Tables in Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Naval Reserve Force and Marine Corps (Washington, D.C., 1919).
National Archives Record Group 80 -- Records of the Secretary of the Navy, General Correspondence, 28555-510-- Letter dated 2 August 1918. Copies on file Reference Section, History and Museums Division, Subject file: WW I Women Marines, hereafter Women Marines World War I File.
National Archives Record Group 127--Records of the U.S. Marine Corps, General Correspondence (1913-1938) 1535-1555, Circular, dated 14 August 1918 (Women Marines World War I File)
National Archives Record Group No. 127, . cit., memo from MajGen Barnett, dated 8 February 1919.
National Archives Record Group 127, E cit. Letter from MajGen George l3arnett, dated 30 June 1919.
U. S. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Women's Reserve, "WAVES History," Unpublished manuscript, (Washington, D. C., 1946) , p.1.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls for 1-31 August 1918.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls for January 1919.
Usmcr, L. C. H. L. (2018). Women Marines in World War I. St. John’s Press.
U.S. Women's Bureau, The New Position of Women in American Industr, Bulletin #12 (Washington, D. C., 1920), p.25.