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Title
Formal
portrait
of
Mildred
Caroon
Bailey
,
1959
Date
1959-09-21
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
Korean War, 1950-1953
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
United States. Army--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch
Army--WAAC
Army--WAC
Item description
Caption
on
rear
reads
:
Please
Credit
U.S
.
Army
Photography
Maj
.
Mildred
C
.
Bailey
Chief
,
WAC
Branch
Third
Army
Recruiting
District
Hqs
.
Third
US
Army
Ft
.
McPherson
,
Ga
.
21
Sept
.
1959
Photographer
:
Julian
Shockley
DAC
Central
Photographic
Facility
Hqs
.
Third
Army
Ft
.
McPherson
,
Ga
.
Veteran's name
Bailey, Mildred Inez C
Veteran's biography
Brig
.
Gen
.
Mildred
Inez
Caroon
Bailey
(1919-2009)
served
in the
Women's
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
(WAAC)
and
Woman's
Army
Corps
(WAC)
from
1942
to
1975
, the
last
four
years
as
director
of the
WAC
.
Mildred
Inez
C
.
Bailey
was
born
in
1919
in
Fort
Barnwell
,
North
Carolina
, and
raised
in
nearby
Kinston
.
After
graduating
from
high
school
, she
enrolled
in
Flora
McDonald
College
in
Red
Springs
,
North
Carolina
. She
transferred
to the
Woman's
College
of the
University
of
North
Carolina
(now
the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro)
in her
sophomore
year
and
graduated
in
1940
.
After
graduation
, she
attended
summer
school
at the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Chapel
Hill
.
Bailey
went
on to
teach
French
in
Taylorsville
,
North
Carolina
.
Bailey
joined
the
Women's
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
(WAAC)
at
Fort
Bragg
,
North
Carolina
, in the
summer
of
1942
, and was
sent
to
Officer
Training
School
at
Fort
Des
Moines
,
Iowa
,
where
she was a
member
of
third
class
of
WAACs
.
Bailey
was
assigned
to the
Army
Air
Corps
and
stationed
in
Daytona
Beach
,
Florida
,
until
mid-1943
,
when
the
company
she
commanded
was
transferred
to
George
Field
Army
Air
Base
in
Illinois
.
Bailey
was then
sent
sent
to
Walnut
Ridge
,
Arkansas
, for a
short
time
before
moving
to
Craig
Field
,
Alabama
,
where
she
taught
English
to
members
of the
French
Air
Force
until
the
end
of the
war
in
1945
.
Bailey
remained
in the
army
after
World
War
II
and was
sent
to
Miami
,
Florida
,
where
she
served
as
vocational
guidance
and
counselor
officer
for
veterans
. In
1949
, she was
transferred
to
Stuttgart
,
Germany
, with an
intelligence
assignment
. She was then
sent
to
Munich
to
command
a
WAC
attachment
at the
98th
General
Hospital
.
In
1953
,
Bailey
returned
stateside
to
Washington
,
D.C.
,
where
she
worked
in the
intelligence
branch
of the
Military
District
of
Washington
headquarters
. In
1957
, she
graduated
from
Strategic
Intelligence
School
, and then
reported
to
Fort
MacPherson
,
Georgia
,
where
she
served
as the
head
of
recruiting
for the
Southeastern
United
States
for
three
years
. In
1961
, she was
put
in
charge
of the
WAC
detachment
at
Fort
Myer
,
Virginia
, the
largest
detachment
in the
U.S
.
While
there she
worked
on
building
a
woman's
exhibit
for a
traveling
set
of
exhibits
that would
inform
the
country
about
the
army
.
Bailey
worked
from
1963
to
1968
traveling
with the
tour
and
expanding
the
women's
history
presentation
.
Upon
returning
to
Washington
, she
worked
as a
liaison
officer
for the
Senate
. In
1970
, she
made
deputy
commander
at the
training
center
in
Fort
McClelland
,
Alabama
. On
2
August
1971
Bailey
became
the
director
of the
Women's
Army
Corps
and was
promoted
to
brigadier
general
. She
retired
from the
army
in
July
1975
.
Mildred
Bailey
married
Roy
Bailey
in the
early
1940s
while
stationed
at
Daytona
Beach
. He
passed
away
in the
early
1960s
.
Mildred
Bailey
died
18
July
2009
in
Washington
D.C
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Original publisher
Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
Language
en
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0084 Mildred Caroon Bailey Papers
Collection summary
1999
oral
history
transcript
,
photographs
,
newspaper
clippings
,
biographical
information
, and a
transcript
of "
Conversations
Between
Brigadier
General
Mildred
C
.
Bailey
and
Lieutenant
Colonel
Rhoda
M
.
Messer""""(24
Sept
1978)
.
Rights statement
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Additional rights information
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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
WV0084.6.001
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/
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