Oral history interview with Mary Frances Williams Elder, 1999 February 2.

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...

United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Women Veterans Historical Project.

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Trojanowski, Hermann,

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Elder, Mary Williams,

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Native of Lexington, N.C.; born 1919; served in the WAAC (1942-1943), and the WAC/Army Air Forces (1943-1945); attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Commercial Class of 1938. From the description of Oral history interview with Mary Frances Williams Elder, 1999 February 2. (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51159396 ...

Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Commercial Dept.

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