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Object Description
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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