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Title	[WAC Company 10, 21st Regiment by guidon, 1943]
Date	1943-07-30
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAAC Army--WAC
Item description	Nine members of Company 10, 21st Regiment stand outside their orderly room at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. They are looking at the unit's guidon after being awarded a blue ribbon on 30 July 1943. Florence S. Weil, center, holds the corner of the guidon. Also pictured (left to right) are: Bundy, Snell, Bacon, M. Wilson, Threat, Hatch, Gullory, and Grant. The company is wearing the WAC khaki summer uniform without jackets and with Hobby hats.
Veteran's name	Weil, Florence
Veteran's biography	Florence S. Weil served in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. Florence S. Weil of New York City was a war radio analyst and an editorial assistant at "Esquire" magazine before enrolling in the WAAC in 1942. Weil was stationed at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and then Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she attended Officer Candidate School.
Place	Fort Oglethorpe (Georgia)
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	WV0225 Florence S. Weil Papers
Collection summary	Photographs, Correspondence, 1942-1944; menus and newspaper clippings, 1942-1943.
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. Official WAC photo.
Object ID	WV0225.6.007
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	900812413

[WAC Company 10, 21st Regiment by guidon, 1943]

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