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Title	[WAACs parade past barracks, 1943]
Date	1943
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	A WAAC unit, lead by an all-male band, marches in a parade past barracks, probably at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in 1943.
Veteran's name	Gribble, Dorothy Farrington
Veteran's biography	Dorothy "Dottie" Farrington Gribble of High Point, North Carolina, served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943 to 1945, and then had a long career in sales . Dorothy "Dottie" Farrington Gribble was born in High Point, North Carolina. After graduating from Colfax High School in 1936, she worked for the Mojud (Beringer) Hosiery Mill in Greensboro." Gribble enlisted in the WAAC in early 1943 and attended basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. She did additional training at Russellville, Arkansas, before being assigned to the 89th Headquarters, Air Force, at Bergstrom Field in Austin, Texas. There she served in a personnel office doing administrative work for a year. She left the WAC following her marriage to Bill Gribble, who was also stationed at Bergstrom, in June 1944 . Following Bill Gribble's discharge several years later, the Gribbles returned to Greensboro, where Dottie took a cosmetology course and started a beauty shop. She also worked in telephone sales for Sears. Following her husband's death in 1963, Gribble went to work for Berry Water Gardens in nearby Kernersville for twelve years. She then worked in the telephone sales department of J.C. Penney's department store before returning to Sears telephone sales and contracts. Dorothy Gribble died on 12 June 2007.
Place	Fort Oglethorpe (Ga.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Posed military unit
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	WV0035 Dorothy Farrington Gribble 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	WV0035.6.007
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	900810849

[WAACs parade past barracks, 1943]

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