It is not so much left as much as lost. The difficulty with a figure is it was a staggered process, and the official figures won't account for everyone.
One figure is three-quarters of a million laid off by November 1919, although this seems to only account for women who were directly working for the war effort, I suspect the actual figure to be around double that.
The answer to your question: 16,353,700 men & women served in the armed forces during World War Two.
Women were never drafted, they joined voluntarily.
About 350 thousand US women saw military service during WWII.
Congress authorized the Women's Auxiliary Corps in May of 1942.
They took many domestic jobs that were vacated as white men went to war. African Americans also joined the military.
The answer to your question: 16,353,700 men & women served in the armed forces during World War Two.
joined the work force
Women were never drafted, they joined voluntarily.
About 350 thousand US women saw military service during WWII.
39%
300,000 women served in World War 2 in both the military, the Red Cross, the USO, and in civilian jobs. Most of them were in the military.
Virginia C. Claudon Allen joined the United States Army. She enlisted in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and served as a nurse.
Yes but they were not recruided to fight.
Metic
about 17, give or take a few
300,000 US women joined up in the military branches of the US Forces but NOT TO FIGHT in combat. They did clerical jobs, nursing, flying planes and other terrific jobs in the military then.
Congress authorized the Women's Auxiliary Corps in May of 1942.