Title	[Portrait of Judy McKinnon, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States--Armed Forces--African Americans United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAAC Army--WAC
Item description	Portrait of Judy McKinnon, circa 1944, in the WAC khaki summer uniform and Hobby hat.
Veteran's name	McKinnon, Judy Covington
Veteran's biography	Judy Covington McKinnon (b. 1923) of Richmond County, North Carolina, worked in the motor pool and in the mess hall while in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women’s Army Corps during World War II . Judy Covington McKinnon was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, on 3 May 1923, the daughter of a sharecropper. She graduated from high school in Ellerbe and worked as a housekeeper before joining the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in May 1942 . McKinnon was inducted in Charlotte and completed basic training in a segregated African American unit at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. She then worked in the motor pool at Fort Rucker, Alabama, before attended cooks and bakers school at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. She remained at Fort Huachuca working in the mess hall, and later worked in the mess at Fort Lewis, Washington. She was discharged from Fort Lewis as a private first class on 18 June 1945." McKinnon met her husband at Fort Lewis and was married in 1945. She moved with her husband to Tampa, Florida, where she raised a family and worked in a school cafeteria and a cashier. For more than twenty years she was also a self-employed home decorator.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0249 Judy McKinnon Papers
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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.
Object ID	WV0249.6.001
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	900812696

[Portrait of Judy McKinnon, circa 1944]

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