Title	[WAAC 5th Company, 3rd Regiment, 1942]
Date	1942-12-19
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAAC
Item description	5th Company of the WAAC 3rd Regiment is photographed at the Fort Des Moines Training Center on December 19, 1942.
Veteran's name	McGee, Rachel Leuella Summers
Veteran's biography	Rachel Leuella Summers McGee (1920-2007) of Greensboro, North Carolina, was a teletype operator in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) from 1942 to 1943 . Rachel Leuella Summers McGee of Greensboro, North Carolina, was born on 5 August 1920. She graduated from Bessemer High School and began working as a teletype operator for Western Union . McGee enlisted in the WAAC in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in the fall of 1942. She attended basic training at Fort Des Moines in Iowa in November 1942. In early 1943, McGee was assigned to the Communications Center at Fort Knox in Kentucky. She served with the WAAC for nearly one year and then chose to be discharged when the auxiliary corps became the Women's Army Corps (WAC) . After her discharge from the military, McGee returned to work for Western Union. She worked for the company for nearly forty years, in both California and the Greensboro area. She and her husband had one son. Rachel McGee died on 13 February 2007.
Place	Fort Des Moines (Iowa)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Posed military unit
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	WV0016 Rachel Summers McGee 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	WV0016.6.003
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	900810423

[WAAC 5th Company, 3rd Regiment, 1942]

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