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[WAF winter uniform, circa 1955]

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Title	[WAF winter uniform, circa 1955]
Date	1955
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	United States--History--1945-
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Air Force--WAF
Item description	Women in the Air Force winter uniform, including blouse (jacket) and skirt, made of blue wool serge material. The blouse is single-breasted, darted, lined in a satin material, and has two sewn breast pockets and two flapped pockets, along with four Air Force emblem silver buttons down the front and enlisted silver US insignia on the collar. Each sleeve contains the rank insignia patch of the wearer, Lenora Nagel, who was a senior airman (E-4) at the time. The gored skirt is A-lined and pleated inside of the back gores. It buttons over and zips at the left side of the waistband, also with another button and loop on the inside.
Veteran's name	Nagel, Lenora I.
Veteran's biography	Lenora I. Nagel (b. 1930) of Lawton, North Dakota, served with the Women in the Air Force from 1953 to 1956. She later spent almost thirty years teaching overseas as a civilian with the Department of Defense . Lenora Nagel of Lawton, North Dakota, was born on 6 September 1930 to German parents. Her father was a carpenter and had a convenience store during the Depression. After graduating from high school, Nagel attended the Mayville State Teachers College in Mayville, North Dakota, where she received a two-year teaching certificate. She taught school for three years in North Dakota before joining the Women in the Air Force (WAF) on 15 June 1953." After completing basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, in late 1953, Nagel attended radio school at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. In the spring of 1954 she received orders to Selfridge Air Force Base in Mount Clemens, Michigan, where she worked primarily as a flight operator for two years. She was discharged from the air force on 15 December 1956 . Nagel used the GI Bill to take education classes, eventually receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Special Education at Mayville State Teachers College. In 1961 she began teaching overseas as a civilian with the U.S. Department of Defense. For the next twenty-nine years she taught American children in France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Bermuda, and Cuba. Nagel retired in August 1990 and moved to Tampa, Florida.
Type	image
Original format	textiles
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	WV0201 Lenora I. Nagel Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0201.8.003
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	900817330

[WAF winter uniform, circa 1955]

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[WAF winter uniform, circa 1955]

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