Julia Childs

<p>Child joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" title="Office of Strategic Services">Office of Strategic Services</a> (OSS) after finding that she was too tall to enlist in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Army_Corps" title="Women's Army Corps">Women's Army Corps (WACs)</a> or in the U.S. Navy's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAVES" title="WAVES">WAVES</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wacs_6-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child#cite_note-wacs-6">[6]</a></sup> She began her OSS career as a typist at its headquarters in Washington, but because of her education and experience soon was given a more responsible position as a top secret researcher working directly for the head of OSS, General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Donovan" title="William J. Donovan">William J. Donovan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-abc_7-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child#cite_note-abc-7">[7]</a></sup></p>