Title	[Josephine Martin Flynn, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAAC Army--WAC
Item description	Portrait of WAC Josephine Martin Flynn, circa 1944. She wears her winter officer's uniform of a olive drab jacket and light drab (pink) shirt. The jacket has general headquarters service forces patch.
Veteran's name	Flynn, Josephine Martin
Veteran's biography	Josephine Martin Flynn (1919-2006) of Henderson, North Carolina, was one of the first officers in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, serving in the army from September 1942 to August 1946 . Josephine Martin Flynn was born in Henderson, North Carolina, on 18 February 1919 to Eva Waite Martin, a music teacher, and Joseph Buie Martin. She graduated from Henderson High School and attended Peace Junior College in Raleigh, North Carolina, for two years. Flynn transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her last two years and graduated in 1940. She then taught school for two years . In the summer of 1942, Flynn applied for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) Officer Candidate School (OCS). In September 1942 she became a member of the second class at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. She taught supply courses at the school for one year before becoming a recruiter in Charlotte, North Carolina. Flynn also taught at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and supervised Women’s Army Corps (WAC) training all over the country while stationed in the Pentagon. In 1944 Flynn was placed in charge of all civilian personnel at Camp Beale, California, where she remained until her discharge on 13 August 1946 . In the fall of 1946 Flynn entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the GI Bill and completed a master’s degree in personnel. She married her husband in 1950 and they moved to Greensboro, where Josephine Flynn worked in non-academic personnel at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She became the executive director of the Cancer Society and then worked in the Child Health Program of the Health Department. Josephine Flynn died on 15 September 2006.
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	WV0212 Josephine Martin Flynn 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	WV0212.6.003
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	900811929

[Josephine Martin Flynn, circa 1944]

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