Capturing the Women's Army Corps

Capturing the Women's Army Corps
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Publisher : UNM Press
Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : 9780826353412
ISBN-13 : 082635341X
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Book Synopsis Capturing the Women's Army Corps by : Francoise Barnes Bonnell

Download or read book Capturing the Women's Army Corps written by Francoise Barnes Bonnell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographs taken by Charlotte T. McGraw, the official Women’s Army Corps photographer during World War II, offer the single most comprehensive visual record of the approximately 140,000 women who served in the U.S. Army during the war. This collection of 150 of McGraw’s photos includes pictures made in Africa, in England at the headquarters of the European Theater of Operations, in Asia and the Pacific, and in military hospitals in the United States. Serving from July 1942 to August 1946, Captain McGraw provided more than 73,000 photographs to the War Department Bureau of Public Affairs. Her photographs were published in the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, and used by the Associated Press and the United Press, as well as in recruiting posters, handouts and informational pamphlets, and in the most popular magazines of the era such as Time, Colliers, Women’s Home Companion, Parade, Saturday Evening Post, and Mademoiselle.


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