The USDA announces the formal establishment of the Women’s Land Army under a new agency, the United States Crop Corps. Women played a crucial role in cultivating and harvesting the nation’s crops during World War II while millions of men served away from home in the armed forces. The organization also opened opportunities for many women to work outside the home for the first time and earn a wage.

Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith, “’To the Rescue of the Crops’: The Women’s Land Army During World War II,” Prologue Magazine 25 no. 4, Winter 1993, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/winter/landarmy.html

Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. “Harvest War Crops, The Women’s Land Army” poster. Series: World War II Posters, 1942-1945. Record Group 44: Records of the Office of Government Reports, 1932-1947. National Archives.