Oral history interview Dolores Raczynski [sound recording], 2003.

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Oral history interview Dolores Raczynski [sound recording], 2003.

Raczynski, a Milwaukee, Wis. native, discusses her World War II service as a member of the Women's Army Corps working in communications as a switchboard operator serving with the 3341th Signal Service Battalion in France.

Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips.Transcript : 17 p.Master sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips.

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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...

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Raczynski (b.1921) served in Europe with the Women's Army Corps (WAC)during World War II in one of the first WAC units to reach France. After the war, she returned to Wisconsin and settled in Milwaukee. From the description of Oral history interview Dolores Raczynski [sound recording], 2003. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 56960368 ...

Wisconsin Veterans Museum

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