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Title	[Anita G. Keller with mother in California, 1943]
Date	1943
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Other--Air Transport Command and Signal Corps
Item description	Anita G. Keller poses with her mother while stationed in Miami, Florida, in 1943. Keller appears to be dressed in an olive-drab Women's Army Corps winter service uniform, light shade drab skirt, and service cap.
Veteran's name	Keller, Anita May Gahn
Veteran's biography	Anita May Gahn Keller, of St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C., served as a civilian in the Air Transport Command and Signal Corps from 1942 to 1946 . Anita May Gahn Keller lived in St. Louis, Missouri, until the age of thirteen, and then moved to Washington, D.C. She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy High School in 1941 and then studied drama and speech at Catholic University in Washington. She moved to Chicago, Illinois, with her family in 1942 and worked briefly for the Railroad Retirement Board." Keller joined the Air Transport Command in 1942 as a civilian. She had training at Quantico, Virginia, and then began work in the Pentagon Annex as a cryptographer. In February 1943, she was transferred to the 36th Street Air Force Base in Miami, Florida, where she continued working as a cryptographer and also trained other in coding and decoding. In 1945, Keller transferred as a civilian to the Signal Corps and was relocated to Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis . After the war ended, she organized counselors who processed men out of the military. She met Herbert Keller during this time and they were married in May 1947. Keller left the work force to raise their two children. Herbert Keller worked for National Cash Register, which took the family to Lexington, Kentucky, and then, in 1970, to Greensboro, North Carolina.
Place	California
Type	image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0140 Anita M. Keller Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0140.6.002
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	900811545

[Anita G. Keller with mother in California, 1943]

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