Title	[Portrait of Milllie Dunn Veasey, 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States--Armed Forces--African Americans United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAAC Army--WAC
Item description	Millie Dunn Veasey poses in a chair in her WAC battle dress jacket and skirt in Birmingham, England, in 1945.
Veteran's name	Veasey, Millie Louise Dunn
Veteran's biography	Veasey enlisted in the all African American 6888th battalion of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in December 1942, and took examinations at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in January 1943. She went to Fort Denver, Colorado, for basic training, and was stationed at Fort Clark, Texas, as a clerk for the cooks and bakers school until the spring of 1944. She was then transferred to Camp Maxey, Texas, where she served as a company clerk and performed secretarial duties in a hospital. After completing overseas training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Veasey was selected with the first African-American women's unit for overseas duty. They departed from Camp Shanks, New York, aboard the Queen Elizabeth ship. She served as company clerk in Birmingham, England, for four months before being transferred to Rouen, France, in summer 1945 to work as a supply clerk. She was discharged with a final rank of staff sergeant in December 1945. After her discharge, Veasey attended Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the GI Bill, earning a degree in business. After four years teaching business at Thompson High School in Mathews, Virginia, she returned to St. Augustine's to work as secretary to the president. She completed her master’s degree in business education at North Carolina Central University and worked at St. Aug's until her retirement in 1988. Veasey died in Raleigh on 9 March, 2018.
Place	Birmingham (England)
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	WV0176 Millie Dunn Veasey Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0176.6.002
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	900811742

[Portrait of Milllie Dunn Veasey, 1945]

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