[WACs at mail call, 1944]
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Title |
[WACs at mail call, 1944] |
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Date |
1944-04 |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Army--WAAC
Army--AAF |
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Item description |
WACs at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, gather for mail call in April 1944. |
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Veteran's name |
Reeve, Margaret Wierum |
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Veteran's biography |
Margaret “Peggy” W. Reeve (b. 1920) performed secretarial work in the Army Air Forces while serving with Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from 1944 to 1945 .
Margaret "Peggy" Wierum Reeve graduated from a boarding school in Providence, Rhode Island, and later lived in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where she was employed as a secretary for Eaton Paper Corporation. She married in 1941, and while her husband was serving overseas Reeve joined the WAC." On 30 March 1944, Reeve was inducted into the WAC. She was sent the following month to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for basic training. Following basic, she was assigned to Westover Field in Massachusetts, where she did secretarial work in a personnel unit with the Army Air Forces. The unit was transferred in the summer of 1945 to Seymour Johnson Air Base in North Carolina. Reeve was discharged as a corporal on 26 October 1945 .
Following their discharges, the Reeves moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and later to Anderson, South Carolina, where Peggy Reeve attended Anderson Junior College on the GI Bill. She later took classes at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and worked as a secretary for several local institutions, including the American Friends Service Committee. |
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Place |
Fort Oglethorpe (Ga.) |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0021 Margaret (Peggy) Reeve Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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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. |
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Object ID |
WV0021.6.002 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
900810385 |
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