hen American forces disposed of all the enemy opposition on Guadalcanal. This was a bitter fight and it soon became apparent that many more Marines were going to be needed if the war in the pacific was to continue. They soon learned that the pride of the Marine Corps was just as strong in women as it was in the men, as they all contained that "Once a Marine, always a Marine" mentality.Women officers were soon being given a direct commission that was based on their ability and civilian expertise. These women did not receive any type of formal indoctrination or schooling and went onto active duty immediately. There were over two hundred different jobs that these women were assigned too. Many of these jobs include, radio operators, parachute riggers, drivers, aerial gunnery instructors, control tower operators, auto mechanics, and agriculturists. By the time that World War II came to a close, eighty-five percent of all the enlisted personnel that were assigned to the U.S. Marine Corps Headquarters were women. The influence that these women provided to the Marine Corps so great that a statue named Molly Marine was built and dedicated in New Orleans, Louisiana to honor all the women of the Marine Corps.Women also served in the medical field as nurses just as they did during World War I. Nurses were a big part of finding some of the medical technologies that are used to this day because of the war. The wards within the U.S. were greatly reduced in the number of experienced nurses on hand and nursing students was actually running them. These nurses had to cut the way they were treating patients such as those who had just given birth because of the low manpower. Before the war, the nurses would do everything to take care of the patients from bathing to feeding the infant. When the war broke out, the nurses started to have the lower income mothers take care of themselves and to breast feed the infants why the nurses continued to pamp...
