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Title	[WACs beside a road sign for Vittel, 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAC Army--AAF
Item description	Two WACs and a soldier pose in front of a roadside sign for Vittel, France, in 1945. The women wear the olive drab battledress "Ike" jacket.
Veteran's name	Hinchliffe, Nancy L. Riddle
Veteran's biography	Nancy L. Riddle Hinchliffe (b. 1916) of Graham, North Carolina, was a teletype operator in the Army Air Force Signal Corps while serving stateside and overseas in the Women's Army Corps from 1943 to 1945 . Nancy L. Riddle Hinchliffe was born in Graham, North Carolina, on 26 September 1916. After graduating from high school in 1935, she attended beauty school in High Point, North Carolina . Hinchliffe enlisted in Women's Army Corps (WAC) in January 1943 and went through basic training at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia. She then attended the army's business school at Nacogdoches, Texas. She was then assigned to Selfridge Field, Michigan, as a teletype operator. She was later sent to code and cryptography school at Mitchell Field, Long Island, where she became a member of the Army Air Force Signal Corps. Hinchliffe was later transferred to Langley Field in Virginia, where she was again a teletype operator. In May 1944, Hinchliffe was sent to the European Theatre of Operation. She worked as a teletype operator in Stanmore, outside of London, England, before being sent briefly to Versailles, France. She was then stationed in Vittel, France, from October 1944 through May 1945. While in Nice, France, in June 1945, Nancy Hinchliffe married Roger Hinchliffe, a technical sergeant from her company. Her final assignment in Europe was in Schwetzingen, near Heidelberg, Germany, and she was discharged in September of 1945." After the war, Hinchliffe settled in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her husband. She worked as a beautician while raising her two daughters.
Place	Vittel (France)
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	WV0064 Nancy Riddle Hinchliffe 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	WV0064.6.002
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	900811384

[WACs beside a road sign for Vittel, 1945]

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