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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
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COPYRIGHT
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.
Contact
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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
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