[WACs in pajamas, circa 1949]
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Title |
[WACs in pajamas, circa 1949] |
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Date |
1949 |
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Date approximate? |
yes |
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Subject headings |
United States--History--1945-
United States. Army--Women |
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Era |
Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963) |
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Service branch |
Army--WAC
Army |
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Item description |
WACs in pajamas sit on a bunk bed in the barracks at Fort Lee, Virginia, during basic training, circa 1949. |
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Veteran's name |
Anderson, Elaine Agnes |
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Veteran's biography |
Elaine A. Anderson (b. 1926) of Galesville, Wisconsin, served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from 1949 to 1952, and in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1958 to 1968. She had a long career in finance with the Pelton & Crane Company .
Elaine A. Anderson was born in Galesville, Wisconsin, in 1926 and graduated from high school there in 1944. In later 1944 she moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the Casualty Department, where she typed letters of notification for the families of wounded, missing, and dead soldiers. She returned to Galesville in 1945 and worked in retail for four years .
Anderson enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in June of 1949. After basic training in Fort Lee, Virginia, she attended finance school in St. Louis, Missouri. She was assigned to the Army Chemical Center near Baltimore, Maryland, where she worked in the payroll department. In 1950 she was stationed in Bremerhaven, Germany, where she eventually became head of the payroll department. She was discharged soon after returning to the United States in October of 1952, with a final rank of staff sergeant.
Anderson worked briefly as an accountant in Wisconsin and at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida before settling in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she took a job with Pelton and Crane dental equipment company. She joined the U.S. Army Reserves in 1958 and remained in for the next ten years. Anderson retired from Pelton and Crane in 1990 after over thirty years with the company, and stayed active in the American Legion. |
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Place |
Fort Lee (Va.) |
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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 |
WV0191 Elaine Agnes Anderson 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 |
WV0191.6.005 |
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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 |
900812241 |
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