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The Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) ((ポーランド語:Pomocnicza Służba Kobiet (PSK)), ''Pestki''〔Maria Maćkowska, ''Pomocnicza Służba Kobiet w Polskich Siłach Zbrojnych'', London, 1990, p. 101〕) was a unit of Polish Armed Forces during II World War established in 1941 by initiative of Lt. Gen. Władysław Anders, while creating Polish Armed Forces in the East.〔Maria Maćkowska, ''Pomocnicza Służba Kobiet w Polskich Siłach Zbrojnych'', London, 1990, p. 11〕〔Anna D. Jaroszynśka-Kirchmann, ''The exile mission: the Polish political diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939-1956'', Ohio University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8214-1526-3, p. 30〕 ''Pestki'' worked as nurses, cooks, teachers in schools for war orphans, secretaries in staffs, pilots, drivers, etc.〔〔Maria Maćkowska, ''Pomocnicza Służba Kobiet w Polskich Siłach Zbrojnych'', London, 1990, pp. 15, 16, 30〕〔Witold Biegański, ''Polskie Siły Zbrojne na Zachodzie 1939-1945'', Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1990, p. 69〕〔Witold Biegański, Jan Brodala, ''Regularne jednostki wojska polskiego na Zachodzie'', Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1973, p. 291〕〔Witold Biegański, ''Walki formacji polskich na Zachodzie, 1939-1945'', Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1981, ISBN 83-11-06577-2, p. 341〕〔Bernard A. Cook, ''Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present'', ABC-CLIO, 2006, ISBN 1-85109-770-8, p. 474〕 In active service there were around 4,000 volunteers in any time of the war, but 1 July 1945, in time of highest abundance, there were 7,000 women in WAS. In 1944 WAS was transferred to II Corps〔''Wojskowy przegląd historyczny'', 1997, p. 274〕 in Italy. In July 1944 Minister of National Defence reorganized WAS separating three new units: * Women's Army Auxiliary Service (WAAS) (''Pomocnicza Wojskowa Służba Kobiet, PWSK)''〔 * Women's Air Force Auxiliary Service (WAFAS) (''Pomocnicza Lotnicza Służba Kobiet, PLSK)''〔〔 * Women's Naval Auxiliary Service (WNAS) (''Pomocnicza Morska Służba Kobiet, PMSK)''〔 The same bylaw established Headquarters of WAAS, Commandants of WAAS, WAFAS, WNAS and Superintendents to corps and armies' commands. Commissioned officers were appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland. Military ranks were also harmonized with ranks of Polish Armed Forces in the West. First Superintendent of WAS was Władysława Piechowska,〔 another was Zofia Leśniowska.〔〔Wincenty Iwanowski, ''Z dziejów formacji polskich na Zachodzie, 1939-1945'', Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1976, p. 172〕 The WAS was disbanded in March 1946. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Women's Auxiliary Service (Poland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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