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Title
[Dorothy
M
.
Miller
and
fellow
WACs
,
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
Dorothy
M
.
Miller
(far
right)
poses
with
two
fellow
African
American
WACs
in
1945
.
Veteran's name
Miller, Dorothy Thelma May
Veteran's biography
Dorothy
May
Miller
(1922-2005)
of
Lakeland
,
Florida
, was a
medical
technician
and
mail
clerk
in
African
American
units
of the
Women’s
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
and the
Women’s
Army
Corps
during
World
War
II
.
Dorothy
Thelma
May
Miller
was
born
11
February
1922
in
Sandersville
,
Georgia
, and
raised
in
Lakeland
,
Florida
, by her
mother
, a
schoolteacher
and
domestic
.
Miller
attended
Washington
Park
High
School
in
Rochelle
,
Florida
, but
dropped
out
to have her
first
child
. She
enlisted
in the
Women’s
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
(WAAC)
on
1
March
1943.
"
Miller
entered
active
duty
on
20
April
1943
and was
sent
to
Fort
Devens
,
Massachusetts
, for
basic
training
.
When
the
WAAC
became
the
Women’s
Army
Corps
(WAC)
in the
spring
of
1943
,
Miller
was
sent
to
Fort
Des
Moines
,
Iowa
, for
advanced
basic
training
. She
became
a
medical
technician
at
Camp
Forest
,
Tennessee
, and
worked
in the
hospital
operating
room
.
One
year
later
, she was
transferred
to
Fort
Benning
,
Georgia
,
where
she was
assigned
to the
post
office
as a
mail
clerk
.
Miller
was
discharged
as a
corporal
from
Fort
Bragg
,
North
Carolina
, on
6
January
1946
.
Shortly
after
the
war
Miller
got
married
.
When
her
husband
died
in
1948
, she
went
to the
Don
Thompson
Vocation
School
in
Tampa
,
Florida
, on the
GI
Bill
. There she
met
and
married
Dan
Miller
.
While
raising
their
two
children
,
Miller
also
worked
as a
teacher’s
aide
, a
switchboard
operator
for the
city
of
Tampa
, a
receptionist
with the
Tampa
Department
of
Sanitary
Sewers
, and in a
crippled
children's
clinic
. She
retired
in
1983
. In her
retirement
,
Miller
was
active
in
several
veterans’
organizations
and
known
for her
handmade
African
American
dolls
.
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
WV0198 Dorothy M. Miller Papers
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COPYRIGHT
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.
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to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0198.6.001
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/
OCLC number
900812025
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