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Title	[Norma Petree Shaver in ruins in Manila, Philippines, 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAC
Item description	Norma Petree Shaver, wearing the WAC summer work uniform, stands among the ruins of a building in Manila, Philippines, in 1945.
Veteran's name	Shaver, Norma Mildred Petree
Veteran's biography	Norma Mildred Petree Shaver (1921-2002) served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from 1943 to 1945 . Norma Petree Shaver was born on 13 July 1921 in Forsyth County, North Carolina. She graduated from Old Town High School in 1938, took a business course at Salem College, and then went to work at the Hanes Knitting Company as a cost accountant. Shaver joined the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in October 1943. She was sworn in at a ceremony in Raleigh, North Carolina, which was held for promotional purposes, and then boarded a train for Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she completed basic training. Shaver was then stationed at Camp Upton in Long Island, New York for about six months, where she worked in the motor pool before being transferred to the finance office. Shaver returned to Fort Oglethorpe for overseas training and departed California bound for Brisbane, Australia, aboard the SS Lurline in August 1944. In Australia she worked in the office of the adjutant general’s researching the status of servicemen upon request of their families. After a few months Shaver was sent briefly to Hollandia, New Guinea, and then moved on to Tacloban, Philippines in early 1945. In March of 1945 she was transferred to Manila, where she remained until November 1945 when she returned stateside and was discharged . Shaver returned to Hanes and worked there for another twelve years. She also earned her commercial pilot license. She married Ray Shaver in 1950 and in 1967 the family settled in the coastal area of North Carolina. Norma Shaver passed away on 26 January 2002.
Place	Manila (Philippines)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
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	WV0217 Norma Petree Shaver 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.
Object ID	WV0217.6.001
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	900812313

[Norma Petree Shaver in ruins in Manila, Philippines, 1945]

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