CindyH: Weather Girls Had WWII Role

In 1944, while still a senior at Rogers High School, Conant, along with six other girls, was asked to be an observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau. Prior to World War II, the organization listed only two women as observers or forecasters. “The government was in a real bind for weather observers,” recalled Conant. “Our school was picked as an experiment to see if girls could understand (the job). All seven of us got special wartime appointments.” Conant and her band of “weather girls” proved up to the task. By the end of the war, more than 900 women were working as weather bureau observers and forecasters, filling positions of men who’d been called to duty/ CindyH , Voices. More here .

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