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Title	[Olga J. Lathrop and other WACs drawing blood, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAC Army--AAF
Item description	Olga J. Lathrop (right) and three other WAC medics draw blood samples from three army servicemen, circa 1945. Lathrop wears the WAC hospital dress.
Veteran's name	Lathrop, Olga Josephine Lewandowski
Veteran's biography	Olga “Dusty” Lewandowski Lathrop (b. 1924) of Newark, New Jersey, served in the Women’s Army Air Corps (Air WAC) from 1944 to 1946 . Olga “Dusty” Lewandowski Lathrop was born in Newark, New Jersey, on 10 October 1924, to Polish immigrants. She attended Morristown High School and graduated in 1942. She worked briefly as a model for a hair salon . Lathrop enlisted in the Air WAC in November of 1944. She completed basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in December of 1944 and was stationed at Truax Field in Madison, Wisconsin, where she worked in the obstetrics office at the air base hospital. After the war ended, she was transferred to nearby Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, a separation center, where she worked as a lab technician and in serology. She was discharged from the WAC in August of 1946. Lathrop returned to Newark, where she worked in a department store. In 1947, she moved to Wisconsin and married Donley Lathrop, a submarine sailor she had met a Camp McCoy. They moved to North Carolina in the early seventies, eventually settling in Madison. The couple had eight children, four of whom joined the navy.
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	WV0271 Olga L. Lathrop 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	WV0271.6.004
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	900812129

[Olga J. Lathrop and other WACs drawing blood, circa 1945]

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