[WACs listen to radio, 1944]
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Title |
[WACs listen to radio, 1944] |
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Date |
1944 |
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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 |
Official army photo of Emma Dale Love (left) and three fellow WACs listen to the radio while stationed in France, 1944. One of the WACs, who wears an engagement ring, is also fixing her hair. |
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Veteran's name |
Love, Emma Dale Newell |
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Veteran's biography |
Emma Newell Love of Charlotte, North Carolina, served overseas in the Women's Army Corps from 1944 until 1946 .
Emma Newell Love grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and graduated from high school in 1940. She attended Queens College in Charlotte for one year before taking a job in the circulation department at the "Charlotte Observer" .
In 1944, Love joined the Women's Army Corps (WAC). She completed basic training at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia and was then shipped out to the United Kingdom, landing in Scotland in May 1944. She was sent to London for six weeks as a secretary in the First Army, and then crossed the English Channel and landed at Omaha Beach in August 1944, shortly after the Battle of Normandy. She was assigned to the Twelfth Army and transported to Versailles before leaving for duty in Verdun, France. Before May 1945, Love moved to Wiesbaden, Germany. When the Twelfth Army was disbanded, she was given the Bronze Star for her service and transferred to the Fifteenth Army at Camp Lucky Strike near Le Havre, France. Love returned to the United States on 14 February 1946, and was discharged at Fort Bragg, North Carolina .
Love was married to a German for about thirteen years and had a daughter. In the late 1950s, she reconnected with James C. Love and they were married. She worked for the "Charlotte Observer" after returning from the war and later worked for the Small Business Administration. |
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Place |
France |
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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 |
WV0090 Emma Dale Newell Love 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. U.S. Army Corps photo. |
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Object ID |
WV0090.6.006 |
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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 |
900811103 |
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