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Authorization to Enroll Women Marines(182 total words in this text)(2667 Reads)  Category: Letter Author/Presenter: Josephus Daniels Secretary of the Navy Date: 8 August 1918 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAVY DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON August 8, 1918 To: Major General Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps Subj: Enrollment of women in the Marine Corps Reserve for clerical duty. Reference: Letter of Major General Commandant, USMC, dated August 2, 1918. 1. Referring to letter of the Major General Commandant U.S.M.C. as per above reference and in particular to the statement contained in the second paragraph thereof, that it is thought that about 40% of the work at the Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps can be performed as well by women as by men: authority is granted to enroll women in the Marine Corps Reserve for clerical duty at Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., and at other Marine Corps offices in the United States where their services may be utilized to replace men who may be qualified for active field service with the understanding that such enrollment shall be gradual. Josephus Daniels |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
