Here is a Click Magazine photo-essay about the hard-charging WAACS of the Motor Transport School in glamorous Daytona Beach, Florida. Trained to operate and maintain two-ton trucks, the American women of the WAACs were mobilized to run the vast convoy system within the U.S. in order to free-up their male counterparts for more dangerous work in hostile regions.
Not long after this article appeared, WAACs, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, was shortened to WACs: Women’s Army Corps.
Click here to read about the most famous woman truck driver in all of World War II…
Click here if you would like to read a glossary of WAC slang terms.
Read about the WACs in the Korean War…
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