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Title	[Geraldine Muse Phillips at Fort Lee, 1949]
Date	1949
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Army--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Army--WAC
Item description	Geraldine Muse Phillips poses outside while attending officer candidate school at Fort Lee, Virginia, in early 1949. She wears Women's Army Corps winter service dress uniform and barracks cap with a utility bag.
Veteran's name	Phillips, Geraldine Muse
Veteran's biography	Geraldine Muse Phillips (b. 1927) of Birmingham, Alabama, and North Carolina served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from February 1949 until 1950 . Geraldine Muse Phillips was born on 19 March 1927, in Birmingham, Alabama. Her father worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the family moved frequently. Phillips graduated from the high school department of Pinelands College in Salemburg, North Carolina. She attended the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1948 for one year." In February 1949, Phillips joined the Women’s Army Corps (WAC). She went to Camp Lee, Virginia, with the purpose of going to Officer Candidate School, but washed out after four months and took a job as a platoon sergeant of a clerk typist school. On 18 February 1950, she married Jack Phillips, and she left the service one month later. The couple lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and Florida, before returning to North Carolina in 1979. Phillips had five children.
Place	Fort Lee (Va.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
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	WV0129 Geraldine Muse Phillips Papers
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	WV0129.6.001
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	900810800

[Geraldine Muse Phillips at Fort Lee, 1949]

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