The Colonel in the Skirt: Oveta Culp Hobby and the Forging of the Women's Army Corps

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The Colonel in the Skirt: Oveta Culp Hobby and the Forging of the Women's Army Corps

In the gathering storm of 1941, as the United States military establishment contemplated the terrifying prospect of a global, two-front war, a stark and unavoidable reality emerged from the calculations of its top planners: there would not be enough men. The industrial and logistical might required to defeat the Axis powers demanded a workforce of unprecedented scale, both in the factories and in the military itself. Every able-bodied man was a potential rifleman, a pilot, a sailor. Yet, behind the front lines, a vast and complex machinery of communication, administration, and logistics kept the war effort running—and it was staffed by men who could be holding those rifles. It was out of this looming manpower crisis that General George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, championed an audacious, almost unthinkable idea: to create a corps of uniformed women to serve with the Army. This is the story of that idea, its fierce opposition, and the remarkable Texas newspaper executive, Oveta Culp Hobby, who was chosen to turn a controversial bill into the formidable Women's Army Corps, an organization that would ultimately prove indispensable to Allied victory.

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