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In 1943, the WAAC dropped the "auxiliary" part of the acronym to become the Women's Army Corps, which left women with the decision of either becoming civilian or fully entering the military.

The New York Times published a spread in 1943 of the women in the varying uniforms that women took on in their roles during WWII.

In order to get more women involved in the war, the Recruiting and Induction Station of the U.S. Army released an advertisement involving a Q&A about being in the WAAC. It includes the persuasive language necessary to convince women that to be…

Once women had been fully established in the military during WWII, the U.S. War Department released a pamphlet titled "WAC Life," which outlined the roles and duties of female officers in the Women's Army Corps during the war.

As the demobilization of women from the military was underway post-WWII, the U.S. War Department released informative pamphlets out to the women to thank them for their service and lay out their potential next steps.

Margaret Chick was Toledo's first woman to join the Women's Auxiliary Corps (WAC) in 1942, and eventually became the secretary to then Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (later the 34th President of the United States).

Rose Stone, a Toledo, Ohio, resident, was the first Bulgarian woman to join any military branch in the United States.