A WAC's war : reminiscences, [1965-?].

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A WAC's war : reminiscences, [1965-?].

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Reminiscences (270 p.) of Betty M. Olson (birth name Betty J. Magnuson), a woman from Duluth, Minnesota who served with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)/Women's Army Corps (WAC) from March, 1943 to November, 1945. Also includes transcriptions or photocopies of many of the letters she wrote to her parents during this period. Magnuson took her training at Fort Des Moines (Iowa) and then went to Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation (Newport News, Va.) where she worked in the port inspector general's office. In August, 1944, she transferred to the 29th Traffic Regulating Group, which landed in France in September, 1944. They arrived in Paris two weeks after Allied liberation of the city. Magnuson was secretary to Major General Frank S. Ross, chief of transportation, European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army (ETOUSA), headquartered first in Paris and then (as of August, 1945) in Frankfurt, Germany. She was discharged at Fort Des Moines in November, 1945.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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United States. Army. Women's Army Corps

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Ross, Frank S. (Frank Seymoure), 1893-1970

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