the wac took over jobs like file clerk, operators, cooks. that allowed the men who were in the military to then be trained for combat. but it wasn't just the wacs, it wasn't just the women's army corps. it was the women's army pilot service. the wasps were like the tuskegee airmen. they had to make a claim that they would be useful. a woman named jackie cochrane who was a pilot and a florida native along with a test pilot named nancy love approached fdr at the beginning of the war and said, you know, there are a lot of women who could fly supply planes, a lot of women who could pull targets, who could transport planes interest one place to a base and, again, as the same response when the effort was first made to get women into the war industry, no, no, no, we can't do that. we don't want women. we don't want women in those roles. well, it didn't take long before it was clear we needed someone to take over those roles. we needed someone to fly the planes from the factories to the bases. so in september of 1942, the waspss, the women service p

the women's army corps, or the wac, the w-a-c, was established in the 1940's. again, much like the tuskegee airmen, the thought was, "we need more men going off to battle, so we need to have some of these jobs that are taken care of by military, male military personnel, we need some of those to be done why women, so let's create the women's army auxiliary corps." that allowed the men who were in the military to then be trained for combat. but it wasn't just the wac, it wasn't just the women's army corps, it was also the wap, the women's army pilots. like the tuskegee airmen, they had to make a claim that they would be useful. a woman named jackie cochran, who was a pilot and a florida native, along with a test pilot named nancy harkness-love approached fdr at the beginning of the war and said, "you know, there are a lot of women who could fly some spy planes, there are a lot of women who could pull targets, who could transport planes from one factory to a base." we needed someone to fly the planes from the factories to the bases. so in september of 1942, the wa

sunshine wac for the rest of the workweek. we cool off as we look at the ten-day outlook. friday, saturday, we're mainly in the lower 70s and we dry out and warm up. denise. >>> hi, i'm amy fadool. the phillys phillies sent jared to the mound. he gets pick eed off first base. not a good way to start this one. dexter fowler, yeah, that's gone. double for the run. second inning, ryan hourward. his struggles have been well documented. jason rips this one. left center. another run comes in. trying to make it two. kyle hendricks is out at the plate but still makes it 3-0 cubs. man on for howard. different inning. same result. goes down swinging. two strikes out. average down to 154. the phillies lose, 4-1. utley always at his best. a controversial slide broke the leg of ruben tahada. he said his family received death threats. we showed you chase utley getting booed friday night. a couple of runs. he drove them in. clearly trying to throw at him. the manager also gets the toss. utley's next at-bat. smoked one over the fence in right center. quite a night. he was not done. booing

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