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Title	[Work detail, Eglin Field, Florida, 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--WAAC Army--AAF
Item description	Alice Starr May, top row, far left, and other members of a work detail pose in their work uniforms at Eglin Field, Florida, circa 1944. They are believed to have just finished their shift.
Veteran's name	May, Alice Starr
Veteran's biography	Alice Starr May was born on 21 July, 1926 and raised in White Bluff, Arkansas. In May of 1943, at the age of seventeen, May decided to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which became the Women's Army Corps on July 1, 1943. She attended basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia . May was then assigned to Lowry Field in Denver, Colorado to be trained in photography. Her next assignment was Eglin Field, Florida to learn about dark room photography and how to be a film projectionist. She was assigned to the projection room where she assisted in showing military test films to high ranking military officials, including General George S. Patton . While at Eglin, May met her future husband James in the Officers' Club. They married, and six months later May became pregnant with her first child and she had to leave the military. Although she was no longer enlisted, May's husband remained in the army and they lived in numerous places during his military career, including Germany, Puerto Rico, and Spain. May currently resides in Lexington, North Carolina.
Type	Image
Original format	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	WV0595 Alice Starr May Papers
Collection summary	October 2015 oral history interview, copies of photographs and documents
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0595.6.002
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	935793057

[Work detail, Eglin Field, Florida, circa 1944]

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