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Title	[Elaine Anderson and WAC in Germany, circa 1950]
Date	1950
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Korean War, 1950-1953 United States. Army--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Army--WAC Army
Item description	Elaine A. Anderson (left) and a fellow WAC pose outside barracks in Germany, circa 1950.
Veteran's name	Anderson, Elaine Agnes
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.
Place	Germany
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	WV0191 Elaine Agnes Anderson 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	WV0191.6.008
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	900812242

[Elaine Anderson and WAC in Germany, circa 1950]

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