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Title	[WACs in front of current events display, 1953]
Date	1953
Subject headings	Korean War, 1950-1953 United States. Army--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Army--WAC
Item description	Ruth V. Payne Brown (left) and a fellow WAC pose in front of a current events display focusing on the worldwide battle against "Red" Communists for a public relations photo during basic training at Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1953. Both women wear the WAC taupe "Hattie Carnegie" uniform.
Veteran's name	Brown, Ruth Virginia Payne
Veteran's biography	Ruth Brown of Jasonville, Indiana, served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from 1953 to 1955 and 1960 to 1963 . Ruth Brown was born in Robinson, Illinois, and raised in Jasonville, Indiana. After graduation from high school in 1953, Brown enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and reported for basic training at Fort Lee, Virginia. She was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for training and then sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, for additional medical technician training. She was then stationed at Letterman Army Medical Center in Presidio, California. In December of 1955, she was discharged from the WAC when she became pregnant . After divorcing her husband, Brown reenlisted in the WAC in 1960. She was stationed at Munson Army Medical Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and then sent to the 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1961. She married a soldier who was a former patient in September of 1962 and both were discharged in June 1963. The couple settled in North Carolina after leaving the military.
Place	Fort Lee (N.J.)
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	WV0193 Ruth Virginia Payne Brown 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. Probably an official U.S. Army photo.
Object ID	WV0193.6.002
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	900811935

[WACs in front of current events display, 1953]

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