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[Women's Army Corps ETO field jacket, 1944]

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Title	[Women's Army Corps ETO field jacket, 1944]
Date	1944
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAC
Item description	Woman's Army Corps olive drab officer's battledress jacket with epaulets with captain's barsU.S." collar device, two pockets, waistband that belted on the left side, and three service stripes indicating thirty months of overseas service. Worn with skirt or trousers and garrison cap. The battledress uniform was approved for WACs and nurses serving in the European Theater of Operations in July 1944. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower encouraged the use of the field jacket and it was nicknamed the Ike jacket after him. This jacket worn by Jeanne McGovern from 1944 to 1945.
Veteran's name	McGovern, Jeanne
Veteran's biography	Jeanne M. McGovern served as a WAC from 1941-1945 .
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	WV0163 Jeanne M. McGovern 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	WV0163.8.001
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	900817542

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