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WEMS - The Women's Emergency Map Service.WEMS started as a joke passed to press that ran national article.Although never a formal service, women functioned in many C&GS; jobs during war.By war's end, there was more truth to WEMS than cartoonist had visualized (Image credit: Coast and Geodetic Survey Society)