Myrtle Louise Davis papers, 1944-1951.
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United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
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The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the US Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943. Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby, the wife of a prominent politician and publisher in Houston, Texas. About 150,000 American women served in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. They were the first women other than nurses to serve with the Army. While conservative opinion in the leadership of...
Davis, Myrtle Louise.
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Myrtle Louise Davis, daughter of Nolan C. Davis of Brunswick, Georgia, attended Glynn Academy High School (also in Brunswick) and Bessie Tift Baptist College in Forsyth, Georgia. She entered the Women's Army Corps in September 1944, received basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and occupational therapy training at Hallaran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Afterward, she served the majority of her duty at AAF Convalescent Hospital in Plattsburgh, New York, where she taught musi...
United States. Army
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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...
