In the e-Mail: Silver Stars.

Weird… I thought that I had mentioned this series by Michael Grant (first book: Front Lines). It and Silver Stars are set in an alternate timeline where the US Supreme Court had ruled in the 1930s that not only were women eligible for combat duties; they were subject to the draft.  And yes, let us dispose of something, right off the bat: the premise that the Depression-era Supreme Court would even contemplate such a thing blasts right past ‘absurd’ and goes right into ‘Have You Seen The Yellow Sign?’ levels of insanity. So noted.  It’s more or less fantasy, only without the elves and magic spells.

Still, it’s not a bad series. The characters aren’t particularly single-handedly transforming the US Army into a progressive utopia or anything — they mostly want dry socks and, increasingly, the opportunity to kill Nazis — and the combat scenes are pretty good at presenting the chaos of assault landings and street fighting.  I imagine that actual combat or military veterans will roll their eyes at a lot of it, but then, that happens with military fiction generally. All I can tell you is that I read the first two books fairly quickly, and will order the third when it becomes available. So you might want to give at least the first one a look-see.