Women helped during World War I as well. Some women volunteered as nurses while others worked in factories, shipyards, and on farms. Women helped at training camps at home and at rest camps and with refugees overseas. The Army Nursing Corps gained 12,000 women volunteers, including 195 from North Carolina. 13,000 American women joined the Marines and Navy, as clerical workers. No matter their circumstances, women at home did their best for the sons, husbands, brothers, and sweethearts who went to war.