Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (1940-66)

Routine committee documents; letter from George C. Marshall (Secretary of Defense) appointing Bessie Hillman to the committee; "Restricted" report, Women in the Air Force: A Study of Recent Enlistees; itineraries of committee tours and field trips; "Restricted" report, Attitudes of Civilian Groups in the State of Illinois Toward Women in the Service; "Restricted" report Enlisted Women in the Services: III. Some Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions of Service Life; Bessie Hillman's resignation from the committee; memorandum on "Non-Discrimination Policy and the Bureau of Employment Security;" "Survey of Employment Prospects for Negroes in Armament Industries."