More than 200,000 U.S. military veterans live in Los Angeles County - more than in any other county in the United States. Of those, more than 18,000 are women.
Photo from the L.A. Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library.
1942. At the start of America's involvement in World War II, these were the first women from the Los Angeles area accepted for officer training in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) . Captain Robert L. Woods administers the oath to (left to right) Madelyn Miller, Anna W. Wilson, Dorothea Wilson, Emily Davis, Kathryn Johnson and Emily Hathaway. These women served among 350,000 women in the U.S. armed forces in the war.
The second largest earthquake ever reported in the United States occurred just 70 miles northwest of Downtown Los Angeles.
