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Object Description
Title
[Women's
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
khaki
uniform
,
circa
1942]
Date
1942
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Army--WAAC
Item description
Women's
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
second
pattern
khaki
summer
uniform
with
four
plastic
buttons
,
two
pocket
flaps
,
two
slash
pockets
,
enlisted
"
U.S.
"
disc
on
right
collar
, and
enlisted
Pallas
Athene
disc
on
left
collar
.
Does
not have
belt
or
passants
.
Worn
with
khaki
shirtwaist
and
tie
.
Worn
by
Rachel
Summers
McGee
from
1942
to
1943
.
Veteran's name
McGee, Rachel Leuella Summers
Veteran's biography
Rachel
Leuella
Summers
McGee
(1920-2007)
of
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
, was a
teletype
operator
in the
Women's
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
(WAAC)
from
1942
to
1943
.
Rachel
Leuella
Summers
McGee
of
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
, was
born
on
5
August
1920
. She
graduated
from
Bessemer
High
School
and
began
working
as a
teletype
operator
for
Western
Union
.
McGee
enlisted
in the
WAAC
in
Fayetteville
,
North
Carolina
, in the
fall
of
1942
. She
attended
basic
training
at
Fort
Des
Moines
in
Iowa
in
November
1942
. In
early
1943
,
McGee
was
assigned
to the
Communications
Center
at
Fort
Knox
in
Kentucky
. She
served
with the
WAAC
for
nearly
one
year
and then
chose
to be
discharged
when
the
auxiliary
corps
became
the
Women's
Army
Corps
(WAC)
.
After
her
discharge
from the
military
,
McGee
returned
to
work
for
Western
Union
. She
worked
for the
company
for
nearly
forty
years
, in
both
California
and the
Greensboro
area
. She and her
husband
had
one
son
.
Rachel
McGee
died
on
13
February
2007
.
Type
image
Original format
textiles
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0016 Rachel Summers McGee Papers
Rights statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information
NO
COPYRIGHT
-
UNITED
STATES
. This
item
has been
determined
to be
free
of
copyright
restrictions
in the
United
States
. The
user
is
responsible
for
determining
actual
copyright
status
for any
reuse
of the
material
.
Object ID
WV0016.8.001
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 --
http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number
900817283
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