[Ball game, circa 1944]
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Title |
[Ball game, circa 1944] |
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Date |
1944 |
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Date approximate? |
yes |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Army--WAC |
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Item description |
WACs at the Third WAC Training Center, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, gather for softball game, circa 1944. |
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Veteran's name |
Jordan, Dorothy H. |
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Veteran's biography |
Dorothy H. Jordan, of the Bronx, New York, served in the Women's Army Corps from January 1944 through World War II .
Dorothy H. Jordan grew up in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from George Washington High School in 1941. After graduation, she worked at a bank and a grocery store and then became a playground director." Jordan joined the Women's Army Corps in January 1944. Her basic training was at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she was assigned to Cooks and Bakers School before being re-assigned to the WAC Military Police (MP). Jordan stayed at Fort Oglethorpe until the WAC MPs were disbanded in 1945. She was sent to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, for reassignment, and then went to Percy Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan. There Jordan was an MP and then the Permanent CQ (Charge of Quarters), meaning that she only patrolled the barracks. After the war, Jordan went home on furlough due to illness, and then left the WAC not long after returning to duty .
Jordan spent a year as a patient in Kingsbridge Veterans Hospital, the Bronx, New York, suffering from a skin condition and arsenic poisoning. She worked very little after she was released, having been deemed 100 percent disabled. |
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Place |
Fort Oglethorpe (Ga.) |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0073 Dorothy H. Jordan Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse. |
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Object ID |
WV0073.6.003 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
900811179 |
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