ouse, two hundred forty nine in favor to eighty-six in opposition. The Senate also passed the bill thirty-eight to twenty seven on May fourteenth. When President Roosevelt signed the bill the next day, making it a law, he set a recruitment goal at 25,000 for the first year. WAAC topped that goal by November (Women's). Every woman who enlisted in WAAC was trained in a noncombatant military job, consequently freeing one man for combat. Each individual woman made an single and important contribution. One of the branches o
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