This page scrapbook page includes four newspaper clippings, one of which features a photograph of members of the U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, or WAACs, embarking for deployment to North Africa during World War II. The other articles included on the page are related to the promotion of the director of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in North Africa, a wedding taking place at Alexandria Air Base in Louisiana, and a piece reporting that President Franklin Roosevelt is considering an executive order that would make members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps part of the U.S. Army.
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