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Title
[Three
WACs
exit
Douglass
C-54
Skymaster
,
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
Army--AAF
Army--WAF
Air Force--WAF
Item description
Photograph
of
three
women
close
together
disembarking
from a
C-54
Douglass
Skymaster
.
"
Pictured
with her
arm
extended
and with
boots
on the
ground
is
Major
Frances
S
.
Comick
.
Comick
was a
WAC
deputy
Staff
director
during
the
war
.
Comick
wears
the
M-1943
standard
issue
field
jacket
, and
given
the
positioning
of the
trousers
it
is
probable
that she has on the the
pre-1944
pattern
. She also
wears
the
standard
M-1
steel
helmet
, and
standard
combat
boots
with
M-1938
leggings
.
" As
indicated
by her
rank
insignia
, the
woman
standing
on the
plane
platform
is
Lieutenant
Colonel
Anna
M
.
Wilson
. She
is
attired
in an
ETO
WAC
jacket
,
pre-1944
standard
trousers
,
garrison
cap
, and
standard
army
shoe
with
attached
leggings
.
"
Located
inside
of the
plane
leaning
outward
is
Major
Mary
A.
Hallaren
,
who
is
attired
similarly
to
Colonel
Wilson
.
Veteran's name
Fortune, Reva Pauline Ingram
Veteran's biography
Reva
Pauline
Ingram
Fortune
(1917-2018)
of
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
,
served
with the
Army
Air
Force
while
in the
Women’s
Army
Corps
(WAC)
from
1943
to
1948
and with the
Women
in the
Air
Force
(WAF)
from
1948
to
1952
. She then
spent
twenty-five
years
as a
Social
Security
Administration
employee
in
High
Point
,
NC
.
Reva
Pauline
Ingram
Fortune
was
born
on
6
April
,
1917
in
Colfax
,
Illinois
, and
raised
on a
farm
outside
of
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
. She was
one
of
six
children
;
two
of her
sisters
also
served
in the
military
during
World
War
II
.
After
graduating
from
Greensboro
High
School
in
1933
,
Fortune
worked
as a
secretary
at
Pomona
Terra-Cotta
Company.
"
Fortune
enlisted
in the
Women’s
Auxiliary
Army
Corps
(WAAC)
in the
spring
of
1943
and
attended
basic
training
at
Daytona
Beach
,
Florida
. She was then
assigned
to
Buckingham
Army
Air
Field
at
Fort
Myers
,
Florida
,
where
she
served
as
company
clerk
and
first
sergeant
of a
WAC
squadron
.
Fortune
was
stationed
there
until
the
air
field
closed
in
1945
. She was then
transferred
to
Turner
Field
in
Albany
,
Georgia
, for
six
months
. From there she was
sent
to
Goodfellow
Field
in
San
Angelo
,
Texas
.
Three
months
later
Fortune
was
assigned
to
Randolph
Field
in
San
Antonio
,
where
she
remained
for
several
years
.
While
at
Randolph
Field
,
Fortune
attended
night
classes
at
Trinity
College
and
met
her
future
husband
,
Roy
Fortune
, a
paratrooper
in the
11th
Airborne
Division
. In
1948
, the
air
force
separated
from the
army
, and
Fortune
re-enlisted
for
another
four
years
with the
WAF.
" In
1952
,
when
her
enlistment
was
up
,
Fortune
was
stationed
in
Fort
Myer
,
Virginia
. She then
married
Roy
Fortune
and
left
the
Air
Force
.
When
Roy
Fortune
was
stationed
overseas
in
1953
and
1954
,
Reva
Fortune
returned
to
Greensboro
and
moved
in with her
parents
. She
enrolled
in
classes
at
Woman’s
College
(now
the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro)
on the
GI
Bill
and
graduated
in
1958
with a
degree
in
biology
and a
minor
in
Spanish
. The
following
year
she
went
to
work
for the
Social
Security
Administration
in
High
Point
,
North
Carolina
,
where
she
remained
for
twenty-five
years
,
until
her
retirement
in
1984
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Work 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
WV0034 Reva Ingram Fortune Papers
Rights statement
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
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.
Contact
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holder
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to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0034.6.016
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
900810543
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