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Title	[WAAC and three army servicemenat Greenwood Army Air Base, 1944]
Date	1944-11
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAAC
Item description	An unidentified WAAC and three army servicemen stand together at Greenwood Army Air Base, Mississippi, in November of 1944. The WAAC wears the enlisted personnel summer service uniform.
Veteran's name	Wakefield, Kathryn Fulner
Veteran's biography	Kathryn Fulner Wakefield (1920-2012) of Hillsdale, New Jersey, performed clerical work in the WAAC (Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps) and the WAC (Women’s Army Corps) from 1943 to 1945 . Kathryn Fulner Wakefield was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 29 February 1920, and raised in Hillsdale, New Jersey. In 1939, she graduated from Park Ridge High School. She went on to complete a four year business course and work in a leather tannery office in New York . Wakefield enlisted in the WAAC in 1943 and was sent to Daytona Beach, Florida, for basic training. She then attended the Army Administration School in Alpine, Texas. In summer 1943, Wakefield was assigned to Greenwood Army Air Base in Mississippi, where she re-enlisted in the WAC. In December of that year, she was transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, where her duties included: colonel’s secretary, recruiting, court stenography, and administration office work. While stationed there, she met Carl Wakefield, and the two were married in July of 1944. In the fall of that year, she was transferred to Dothan, Alabama, where she did court stenography. She was discharged from the WAC in October of 1945 . After completing her service, Wakefield moved to Sebring, Florida, to live with her husband. Following Carl’s discharge in September 1946, the couple moved to Wauchula, Florida, and then to Greensboro, North Carolina. Wakefield was a stay-at-home mom until her children were in school, and then worked part-time as a nurse's aide and at Gate City Savings. Wakefield died on 25 November, 2012.
Place	Greenwood (Miss.)
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	WV0275 Kathryn F. Wakefield 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	WV0275.6.005
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	900813406

[WAAC and three army servicemenat Greenwood Army Air Base, 1944]

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