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[Women's Army Corps khaki uniform, 1944]

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Title	[Women's Army Corps khaki uniform, 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 Korean War, 1950-1953 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946) Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Army--WAC Army--AAF Army--WAF Air Force--WAF
Item description	Women's Army Corps khaki summer uniform with four gold buttons, two pocket flaps, two slash pockets, Pallas Athene disc on right collarU.S." disc on left collar, epaulets, and pins on both lapels. Worn with khaki shirtwaist and tie. Worn by Reva Ingram Fortune while in the Army Air Forces from 1944 to 1946.
Veteran's name	Fortune, Reva Pauline Ingram
Veteran's biography	Reva Pauline Ingram Fortune (1917-2018) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served with the Army Air Force while in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from 1943 to 1948 and with the Women in the Air Force (WAF) from 1948 to 1952. She then spent twenty-five years as a Social Security Administration employee in High Point, NC . Reva Pauline Ingram Fortune was born on 6 April, 1917 in Colfax, Illinois, and raised on a farm outside of Greensboro, North Carolina. She was one of six children; two of her sisters also served in the military during World War II. After graduating from Greensboro High School in 1933, Fortune worked as a secretary at Pomona Terra-Cotta Company." Fortune enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) in the spring of 1943 and attended basic training at Daytona Beach, Florida. She was then assigned to Buckingham Army Air Field at Fort Myers, Florida, where she served as company clerk and first sergeant of a WAC squadron. Fortune was stationed there until the air field closed in 1945. She was then transferred to Turner Field in Albany, Georgia, for six months. From there she was sent to Goodfellow Field in San Angelo, Texas. Three months later Fortune was assigned to Randolph Field in San Antonio, where she remained for several years. While at Randolph Field, Fortune attended night classes at Trinity College and met her future husband, Roy Fortune, a paratrooper in the 11th Airborne Division. In 1948, the air force separated from the army, and Fortune re-enlisted for another four years with the WAF." In 1952, when her enlistment was up, Fortune was stationed in Fort Myer, Virginia. She then married Roy Fortune and left the Air Force. When Roy Fortune was stationed overseas in 1953 and 1954, Reva Fortune returned to Greensboro and moved in with her parents. She enrolled in classes at Woman’s College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) on the GI Bill and graduated in 1958 with a degree in biology and a minor in Spanish. The following year she went to work for the Social Security Administration in High Point, North Carolina, where she remained for twenty-five years, until her retirement in 1984.
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	WV0034 Reva Ingram Fortune 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	WV0034.8.002
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	900817578

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