the stallworth women of a relic russia, the canadian and australian women, the women of china with theirndying fortitude. >> and so he was a big supporter and wanted women to work administrative jobs for him, and his boss, general marshall, was also supportive as well. with his support, congress passed it. there were some -- some people were afraid that this was not based traditional role for women. it was going to take care of the children? domestics are in the sphere and not in military, so there was that fear. i mean, this was so nontraditional of a role. not just a workforce, but military. women started arriving here, the first batch of them, in july of 1942. they would go through basic training here. in about fiveted weeks, then they could do specialty training in other places. there were other places for the women's army corps, but it started here, and it was the largest camp of its kind, so we are talking about roughly 70,000 women went through here and trained, but they ended up with washington, inn fort and military outposts all over the country, and dated roughly about 200 diff