The Victory Corps was an American program during the Second World War that provided military training to male and female high school students. On September 25, 1942, Commissioner of Education John W. Studebaker[1], in conjunction with United States Departments of War, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics, established the Victory Corps[2]. The program was designed to prepare secondary school students for possible military service and participation in the war effort.[3] Although participation in the program was voluntary, many high schools across the country sought to aid the war effort due to rising patriotic fervor following Pearl Harbor.[4] For example, a survey conducted by the American Legion in 1943 found that of 232 high schools in Oregon, 86 schools had established a Victory Corps program and 96 schools planned on implementing the program in the following semester.[5] The United States Office of Education aimed that every high school in the country would implement the Victory Corps program.