Charles D.Y. Ostrom, Sr. papers, 1944-1945.

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Charles D.Y. Ostrom, Sr. papers, 1944-1945.

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General description of the collection: The Charles D. Y. Ostrom, Sr. papers contains seven letters written by U.S. Army personnel to General and Mrs. Charles D. Y. Ostrom during World War II. Three lengthy letters were written by Lieutenant Katherine Shroud of Headquarters Section, Transportation Corps. Shroud's letters from New Guinea are dated from 24 October 1944 to 20 March 1945, and describe the arrival of the WACs on the island, the island and living conditions, native villages, missions and labor camps, and the social life of the WACs. Three letters from Lieutenant Virginia M. Mathew of the Censorship Detachment in the Dutch East Indies dated from 15 March to 7 May 1945 are included in the collection. Mathew's letters describe her work as a censor and improving the food in the officer's mess, her social life, Japanese air raids and resistance on the unnamed, coral island, and her medical treatments for a skin condition contracted on the island. Both Shroud and Mathew describe their wishes and efforts to receive assignments to the Philippines. The last letter in the collection is from Private First Class Charles A. Miller of B Battery, 748th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (Mobile) dated 28 April 1945 from Iceland. Miller describes the poor military-civilian relations in the nearby town and his work with diesel generators to supply electricity to the base.

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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...

Ostrom, Charles D. Y., Sr.

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Mathew, Virginia M.

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Miller, Charles Alfred

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Shroud, Katherine

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