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[Women's Army Auxiliary Corps khaki uniform, circa 1942]

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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

[Women's Army Auxiliary Corps khaki uniform, circa 1942]

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