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Title
[Ellen
Brown
Steel
in a
field
,
1962]
Date
1962
Subject headings
United States--History--1945-
United States. Army--Women
Era
Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch
Army--WAC
Item description
Ellen
Brown
Steel
poses
outdoors
in a
field
in
1962
. She
is
probably
wearing
the
WAC
green
and
white
cord
striped
summer
uniform
.
Veteran's name
Steel, Ellen Brown
Veteran's biography
Ellen
Steel
(1923-2007)
of
Oklahoma
City
,
Oklahoma
,
served
in the
Women’s
Army
Corps
from
1949
until
1969
.
Ellen
Steel
was
born
in
Holdenville
,
Oklahoma
on
22
December
1923
,
grew
up
in the
Oklahoma
City
area
, and
graduated
from
Moore
High
School
in
1941
. She
held
several
civilian
defense
jobs
during
World
War
II
,
working
as a
turret
lathe
machine
operator
in a
defense
plant
, in an
antiaircraft
projectiles
plant
, and as a
machinist
at the
Puget
Sound
Navy
Yard
in
Washington.
" In
March
1949
, at the
age
of
twenty
five
,
Steel
joined
the
Women’s
Army
Corps
(WAC)
in
Arkansas
. She
went
to
Fort
Lee
,
Virginia
, for
basic
training
and
quartermaster
school
and
stayed
on as
supply
clerk
and,
later
,
supply
sergeant
in a
basic
training
company
.
Steel
was
sent
to
Fort
Leonard
Wood
,
Missouri
, in
1952
and then she was
transferred
to
Fort
Leavenworth
,
Kansas
, for
six
months
. In the
mid-1950s
, she
worked
at the
Supreme
Headquarters
of
Allied
Powers
Europe
(SHAPE)
in
Paris
,
France.
"
Steel
left
the
WAC
in
1955
, but
re-enlisted
within
a
month
and was
assigned
to
William
Beaumont
Hospital
in
El
Paso
,
Texas
. She
spent
two
years
working
on a
bachelor’s
degree
in
personnel
management
at the
University
of
Arkansas
in
Fayetteville
and then in the
early
1960s
went
to the
WAC
Training
Center
at
Fort
McClellan
,
Arkansas
.
Steel
also
served
with a
male
reserve
unit
in
Edison
,
New
Jersey
, and in the
Office
of
Economic
Opportunity
in the
Job
Corps
at
Fort
Meyer
,
Virginia
. Her
last
assignment
was with
General
Elizabeth
Hoisington
in the
WAC
director's
office
at the
Pentagon.
"
Steel
retired
in
August
1969
and
moved
to
Morningside
,
Maryland
. In
June
1979
, she
moved
to
Lynn
,
North
Carolina
.
Ellen
Steel
died
on
3
September
2007
.
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
WV0154 Ellen Brown Steel Papers
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COPYRIGHT
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.
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reuse
.
Object ID
WV0154.6.006
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
900811601
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