News in Brief: G.I. Jane Joins Up.
News in Brief: G.I. Jane Joins Up.
Clip: 351596_1_1
Year Shot: 1951
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1565
Original Film: 024-509-05
HD: N/A
Location: New York, New York
Timecode: 03:00:12 - 03:00:52
News in Brief: G.I. Jane Joins Up. New York honors women in the armed forces. Hundreds of young women rush to join in one of the four branches of service open to their sex, following colorful parade of WACs, WAVEs and other snappy marchers in recruit drive rally. VS parade: men march with American flags, military women in uniform march. Dignitaries watching the parade include New York's Mayor Impellitteri, actress Helen Hayes, and Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, apparently assistant Secretary of Defense (sex roles, politics, government, working woman). More women are sworn in to the military; the new recruits are mainly young and a racial mix of African American and various Caucasians.