Show if America In Action CIVILIAN ARMY WOMEN More than half a million civilian women are now engaged in and mechanical jobs for the Women now comprise approximately 38 per cent of all the civilian employees on war department personnel as compared with about 25 per cent in the summer of More than different skills are performed by women for the from the expert food consultant to the quartermaster general to the girl messenger in the In addition to training given on the training has been given in schools to thousands of with the co- j operation of the United States office of Convoy driving for posts and stations throughout the service commands was an early assignment for As instructors in the rudiments of women have been in great Their usefulness as mechanics for the air forces is on the The corps of engineers employs them to examine fabrics and parts for barrage T ie signal corps depends on them to inspect radio the ordnance department to make certain that outgoing ammunition is For the quartermaster women evaluate textiles for At the beginning of the second year of the replacement women are beginning to move into more and more supervisory positions as their terms of working experience warrant such promotions More than a hundred women are now employed as inspectors in war plants' in the New England area to interpret and enforce army standards for the chemical warfare Women were sent to the schools in the Rock Island to be equipped to take over civilian administrative jobs in arsenals and The Sacramento air McClellan had the first all-feminine dispatching their work being to route the planes off and on the Women have excelled as storekeepers for automotive parts and general repair shops at large army and as testers and cleaners for the guns fired at the Aberdeen Proving by Western Newspaper |