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SPARS Transform Palm Beach Biltmore Into Military Academy
In 1942, as war raged on, FDR signed a law that changed women’s roles forever.
The Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, known as SPARS, took over Palm Beach’s swanky Biltmore Hotel in May 1943. Workers knocked down walls, built new rooms, and turned ballrooms into chapels.
Soon, women in navy blue marched through town streets and trained at The Breakers golf course…