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...small son, heard of a vacancy for a family with two children, bargained, "We'll take it. If he insists on two kids, we'll have another." Hideout. In Jacksonville, Tina Irene Mazzarrella, missing for two years since she threatened to run away and join the WAC, finally wrote home, explained how she had crossed up her pursuers: she had enlisted in the WAVES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 11, 1945 | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...York City, Boston and Charleston, thousands of men piled down the gangplanks, lugging barracks bags, German sabers and helmets. They wolf-yowled at the WAC bands, kneeled to make the sign of the cross. One G.I., debarked to a bus, impetuously obeyed his resolve to kiss the first American girl he saw (see cut). The bus de-bussed them before they could even exchange names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Don't Go Sympathizing | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Spring Drives. In Salina, Kans., WAC Lieut. Linda Barnes drove her car to a garage, found the trouble was simply a bird's nest and three eggs on the motor block. In Los Angeles, Jessie Sachs's motor continued to hum after the ignition was turned off; under the hood was a busy swarm of bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 21, 1945 | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...WACs it is 44 points, but a WAC may get a discharge to join a discharged soldier-husband, no matter how low her score. A holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor may get his discharge whenever he asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: For Enlisted Men Only | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...court (two white WACs, five white male officers, two male Negro officers) listened for two days to testimony, heard the ranking Negro WAC officer, Lieut. Tenola T. Stoney, when asked if she had noted any difference between the handling of black and white WACs at Lovell, answer: "I have not." When all the testimony was in, the court retired, soon reached its verdict: for each of the four, a year of hard labor, dishonorable discharge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Sit-Down & Sentence | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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