Women in the United States Military

Women's participation in the U.S. Armed Forces has grown over time in response to the national need for their services. Throughout each era of American history, patriotic women volunteered to serve their country in a wide variety of official and unofficially sanctioned capacities. When there was a call to duty, the United States Armed Forces alw

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Judith Bellafaire is the Chief Historian at the Women in Military Service For America Memorial. She served for seven years as Historian for the U.S. Army Center for Military History in Washington, D.C.

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Introduction
Chapter 1 - Women in Defense of the Nation across the Centuries
Chapter 2 - Early Patriots: Military Women from the American Revolution to the Civil War

Chapter 3 - Women and the American Civil War: More than Expected

Chapter 4 - Women on the Western Frontier: Few and Far Between

Chapter 5 - Spanish American War Nurses: Proving Themselves of Value

Chapter 6 - World War I: Women Volunteers Establish Parameters of Service
Chapter 7 - World War II Women: Bedpans, Typewriters and Lipstick
Chapter 8 - The Korean War: Women Serving Under the Protection of Uncle Sam
Chapter 9 -The Vietnam War: The Nurse Heroine and Her Forgotten Sister

Chapter 10 - The All Volunteer Force through the 1980s: How Many Women Is Too
Chapter 11 - Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM and the 1990s
Chapter 12 - The All Volunteer Force and the War on Terror