The attached article is from the earliest weeks of the Korean War (1950–1953), and it lays out for the reader how many American service women were mobilized for the emergency, and from where they came. The paragraph below will give you an idea as to the roll American women played throughout the entire course of the three-year conflict:
During the Korean War, approximately 120,000 American women served in the military, with the vast majority in non-combat support roles across the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines; however, nurses primarily from the Army and Air Force—were the only women permitted on the Korean peninsula itself, where around 1,500 served in harrowing frontline conditions.
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