Scrapbook, 1945.

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Scrapbook, 1945.

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The scrapbook contains clippings from an unknown newspaper. Each of the articles was written by Hastings concerning the activities of the WAC in Asia. Most of the articles in the scrapbook are about the rescue of a WAC unit on New Guinea. All of the clippings are dated 1945.

1 item ([37] leaves) ; 21 cm.

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7596021

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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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...

Hastings, Margaret M.

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Margaret Hastings was a Corporal and newspaper reporter in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Hastings served in the Pacific theater during the war. From the description of Scrapbook, 1945. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 48615123 ...