Fort Huachuca's Black WAACs: First and Fearless On December 4, 1942, approximately 200 Black women arrived at Fort Huachuca, Arizona—the largest Black military installation in America—making history as the first Black Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) companies ever assigned to a U.S. military installation during wartime. Trained and led by seven Black female officers including Charity Adams, Irma Jackson Cayton, Vera Ann Harrison, and others who graduated from the first officer training class

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