When, in the words of former JPL director William Hayward Pickering, researchers "came along with this sounding rocket which really didn't fit the pattern" of "getting bigger as you went along", the rocket "was named after the Women’s Army Corps (WAC)".
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The first WAC Corporal dummy round was launched on September 16, 1945 from White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Corporal | WAC | corporal | corporal punishment | WAC Men's Basketball Tournament | School corporal punishment | Lance-Corporal Jack Jones | Corporal of Horse | Corporal of horse | Corporal Clott | 26 May 1945. Corporal Yukio Araki, holding a puppy, with four other pilots of the 72nd ''Shinbu'' Squadron at Kaseda, Kagoshima |