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Title	[Portrait of Betty Baker, 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
Item description	Formal portrait of WAC Betty Baker in uniform, 1944-1946.
Veteran's name	Baker, Betty
Veteran's biography	Betty Baker of Culpepper, Virginia, was an air base historian and a troop information and education specialist with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1944 to 1946 . Betty Baker was born in Culpepper, Virginia, where her father was a small manufacturer and her mother a school teacher. She was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Dickson, Tennessee, where she graduated from high school. Baker attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1939 to 1944 and majored in English. During that time she also worked for one year at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory in Baltimore, Maryland . Baker enlisted in the WAC in the spring of 1944. She completed basic training at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia and then became the base historian at the Miami Army Air Field in Florida. In early 1945 Baker was sent to Karachi, India (now Pakistan), where she served as a troop information and education specialist. She remained in Karachi until early 1946 and was discharged from Love Field in Dallas, Texas, on 16 January 1946 . Baker held various positions after leaving the service, including literary agent assistant; sport camp assistant manager; radio news director; and newspaper editor and owner. She then spent twenty-eight years as director of the Community Action Agency for Wilkes, Ashe, and Allegheny counties in North Carolina. She also volunteered at the Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
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	WV0042 Betty Baker 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	WV0042.6.001
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	900811005

[Portrait of Betty Baker, circa 1945]

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