MP Armband Can Anyone Identify for sure?

[AverageJoeWWII]

I have this MP armband. It is described as a WAAC armband. there is a small thread here on the forum as well saying it is a WAAC armband. I can find no pictures any where of Waac's/WAC's wearing a green and gold armband. I have seen some pic's of WAAC's wearing the standard blue and white one. Can anyone say for sure that this is a WAAC armband. Anyone have pic's or reg's that state such. ????

[jgawne]

Yeah, at the start the WAAC's were not part of the army officially, so they could nto wear any official army insignia. That's why they had a walking buzzard on their caps, and different buttons. They had their own in house MPs and wore armbands in the WAAC colors of green and yellow. This was dropped when the WAAcs were absorbed into the Army and became the WAC.

 

So the photos you have seen were probably of WAC with the army style armband.

[patches]

Here's a photo of one Mildred Curtis Scott, Grade unknown, at the Boston Port of Embarkation 1944.

Note the White on Black MP brassard.

 

 

 

 

These WAC MPs, question, were WACs just detailed within a unit to pull MP duty,Officers included, or were they assigned Military Police MOS's with them being fully schooled and trained MPs and served with these MP MOS's within the Womens Army Corps, not wearing MP branch collar insignia other than the duty brassard when on duty, also what kind of headgear did they wear too?

[AverageJoeWWII]

So my question still is does anyone have a pics or regs that state or show a green on gold armband. I have a wac grouping from an officer who was an MP. It is fully documented and I plan to post as son as I can. So I know wacs went to MP school.

[jgawne]

The photo is 1944, so she's a WAC not a WAAC. There's a major Difference. The green/yellow was used ONLY during the time period when women were in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) from 1942 until july 1943 when it was converted into the Woman's Army Corps.

 

As such WAAC's were not actually in the Army, and thus could not use regulation Army insignia, or evenm rank titles like captain or lieutenant. As little more than civillian volunteers they had no jurisdiction over actual troops, and thus could not wear the white on blue armband. This changed when the WAAC became the WAC in July 1943, and woman became officially part of the US Army. Oddly enough, one of the differences between female and male MPs were that female MPs were not authorized clubs as were the men. How times have changed.

[AverageJoeWWII]

I agree with Jon. there is a big difference between a WAAC and a WAC. I just got a first issue WAAC officer uniform with the shoulder straps going from front to back, no from head to shoulder. This was the first model uniform before the WAAC was converted over to the WAC. Plan on posting it assoon as I get it together.

[cutiger83]

I just purchased the second volume of Women For Victory which features WAAC uniforms. In the book, there is a picture of a WAAC MP standing with a male MP in Daytona Beach. Even though the original picture is in black and white, you can tell the difference in the shade of the armband. This is the only photographic proof I have found so far. I have tried to find this same picture or a similar one on-line but no luck yet.

 

...Kat