Badass belles, big hair, rifles, fur. What else needs to be said? These ladies are Northwestern students drilling in Evanston, IL on January 11, 1942. As Chicago wasn't under any foreign threat, I can only assume these ladies were practicing for a bayonet charge against the fascists of the local totalitarian regime: patriarchy.
From left to right are: Jeanne Paul, age 18, of Oak
Park, Illinois,; Virginia Paisley, 18, of Lakewood, Ohio; Marian Walsh,
19, also from Lakewood; Sarah Robinson, 20, of Jonesboro, Arkansas,;
Elizabeth Cooper, 17, of Chicago; Harriet Ginsberg, 17.
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