WACs in Hollywood Movies?

Nine Movies?  Plus Three.  
(updated 5/13/2019; 11/10/2022; 2/17/2023; 7/4/2023; 1/17/2025)

Memorial Day is in May in the U.S., and that makes this month a good time to catch up on military movies. 

​Since my novel, Women’s Company – The Minerva Girls, is about three young women in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I’ll focus on twelve movies that feature women in the WAC.  

​Many of the selected films not only cast well-known actors of the period, but also stars such as Tony Curtis, Cary Grant, William Holden, Janet Leigh, Elvis Presley, Rosalind Russell, Ann Sheridan, Lana Turner, and Richard Widmark. 

Most of the stories share an underlying theme:  how Army service changes a person.

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