July 30, 1942 was the day that the Marines Corps for women was established. The main purpose for this regiment was to allow women to protect the shores in place of men that they would be replacing during war time. Within the Marines, women were assigned to over two-hundred jobs that they could actively do while serving. This actively filled 85% of the jobs that men were actively doing in their own branch, which was huge for women that were serving in the Marines. Some of these various jobs included radio operator, photographer, parachute rigger, driver, aerial gunnery instructor, cook, baker, quartermaster, control tower operator, motion picture operator, auto mechanic, telegraph operator, cryptographer, laundry operator, post exchange (store) manager, stenographer and agriculturist. This is the one branch where women most actively served within a military branch. Many men changed their opinion about women once they saw that women could complete so many tasks that men were able to do with just as much ease.
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