Throwback Thursday: Women WOW’em in WWII
When is a bandana not just a bandana? When the U.S. Army ordnance department designates the head covering as the identity for Women Ordnance Workers (WOW) during WWII, as this poster released on Nov. 21, 1942 explains. At right is a comparison of headgear of women in services. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps)
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