Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady. In Atlantic City, WAC Pfc. (Mrs.) Birdie Hyland reported back three days early from a Boston furlough, badly needing to rest up after a meeting with her son Robert, a corporal, also on leave...
Elizabeth Strayhorn was assistant to the commandant at the Fort Oglethorpe WAC training center until the commandant got another job and she took over...
Westroy Battle Boyce, onetime Government worker, was staff director in the Mediterranean theater before she was brought back to the job she now fills: a director on the general staff responsible for WAC training policies. Fragile and helpless looking, 43-year-old Westray Battle Boyce is known as one of the best administrators in the Corps...
Anna Walker Wilson, whose hair is prematurely white, was the first WAC to arrive in the European Theater of Operations. Two G.I.s spotted her, charged up, howling "WACs ! " - then gulped abashedly when they saw her rank. Colonel Wilson laughed them off, told them that a lot of G.I. Janes were on the way. Staff director in the ETO, 34-year-old "Tony" Wilson now has under her wing 6,500 WACs in the United Kingdom, hundreds of WACs sleeping in tents in Normandy...
...Texas, a WASP, flying a ferry route, got so hot even at high altitude that she stripped to the waist, hung the garments on a peg, lost them to the wind, radioed Waco for help, was met at the field by a ground crew with averted eyes and a WAC bearing a shirt...