Records of the Army Staff, 1903 - 2009. Official Military Personnel Files, 1912 - 1998. Official Military Personnel File for Oveta Hobby.

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Records of the Army Staff, 1903 - 2009. Official Military Personnel Files, 1912 - 1998. Official Military Personnel File for Oveta Hobby.

1945

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/74868801

This Official Military Personnel File includes records from the following folders: Auxiliary Material (July 11, 1945-September 5, 1945); Original Containers (n.d.).

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National Archives at St. Louis

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SNAC Resource ID: 11641245

National Archives at St. Louis

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Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995

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Oveta Culp Hobby (January 19, 1905 – August 16, 1995) was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first director of the Women's Army Corps, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. Hobby went to Washington, D.C., in 1941 to head the newly formed women's division of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations. At the request of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall she drafted plans for the formation of a women's auxiliary to the male army, ...