SPARS

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For the various meanings of "spar", see Spar (disambiguation).

SPARS was the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve created in 1942 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The name is a contraction of the Coast Guard motto Semper Paratus and its English translation Always Ready. The name also refers to a spar in nautical usage.

Like the other women's reserves such as the Women's Army Corps and the WAVES, it was created to free men from stateside service in order to fight overseas.

Its director was Dorothy C. Stratton.

The cutter USCGC Spar (WLB-206) is named after the SPARS.

[edit] External links

• SPARS history and WWII women's uniforms in color — WWII US women's service organizations (WAC, WAVES, ANC, NNC, USMCWR, PHS, SPARS, ARC and WASP)
• USCGC Spar homepage