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Title
[WACs
off
duty
in
South
Pacific
,
circa
1944]
Date
1944
Date approximate?
Yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Army--WAC
Item description
Ethel
Palma
,
along
with
fellow
WACs
and
male
Army
soldiers
,
sunbathe
at an
unidenified
locale
in the
Pacific
theatre
,
circa
1944
.
Veteran's name
Palma, Ethel M. LeBlanc
Veteran's biography
Ethel
LeBlanc
Palma
(b
.
1919)
of
Timberton
,
Louisiana
,
served
as a
recruiter
and
mail
censorer
while
serving
with the
Women's
Army
Auxiliary
Corps
(WAAC)
and the
Women's
Army
Corps
(WAC)
from
1942
to
1945
.
Ethel
LeBlanc
Palma
was
born
2
May
1919
in
Timberton
,
Louisiana
, to
Cajun
parents
. She was
raised
in
DeQuincy
,
Louisiana
,
where
her
father
owned
a
bottling
plant
, and
graduated
from the
local
high
school
in
1936
. She
attended
Draughon's
Business
College
in
Houston
,
Texas
, for a
year
, and then
went
to
work
at her
uncle
'
s
Coca-Cola
bottling
plant
as a
bookkeeper
for
two
years
. In
1939
,
Palma
moved
to
New
Orleans
and
worked
for the
U.S
.
Army
Corps
of
Engineers.
" In
December
of
1942
,
Palma
joined
the
WAAC
. She was
sent
the
following
month
to
Fort
Des
Moines
,
Iowa
, for
basic
training
.
Palma
was
trained
as a
recruiter
and
briefly
stationed
at the
Second
Service
Command
in
New
York
City
before
being
transferred
to
Watertown
,
New
York
, in
February
1943
. She
achieved
the
rank
of
corporal
before
returning
to
Fort
Des
Moines
for
Officer
Training
School
in the
summer
of
1943
.
Palma
returned
to
work
as a
recruiter
in
Trenton
,
New
Jersey
, and
Wilmington
,
Delaware.
" In the
spring
of
1944
,
Palma
was
sent
to
Fort
Oglethorpe
,
Georgia
, for
overseas
training
. She
embarked
from
San
Francisco
aboard
the
West
Point
in
May
1944
and
landed
two
weeks
later
in
Sydney
,
Australia
. A
month
later
, she was
sent
to
Port
Moresby
,
New
Guinea
,
where
she
censored
mail
and
later
worked
in a
mail
sorting
unit
.
Palma
was
later
sent
to
Biak
, an
island
off
the
New
Guinea
coast
, to
work
as a
secretary
to a
general
. Then in
early
1945
, she was
stationed
in the
Philippines
,
where
she
returned
to
mail
censoring
and
sorting
duties
in
Leyte
and
Manila
. In
November
1945
,
Palma
returned
to the
U.S
.
aboard
the
converted
ferry
USS
Evangeline
, and
2
weeks
later
married
Elwood
Palma
.
Following
her
discharge
, she was
active
in the
Veterans
of
Foreign
Wars
(VFW)
,
serving
the
Henderson
,
N.C
.
Post
7467
as
commander
. She was also
involved
in
many
local
civic
organizations
.
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
WV0022 Ethel LeBlanc Palma Papers
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.
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Object ID
WV0022.6.011
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
900810267
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