Oral history interview with Carol G. Behling McLeester, [sound recording], 1996.

United States. Army. Women's Army Corps

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fg4k98 (corporateBody)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6km312r (corporateBody)

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...

Behling, Carol G., 1921-2007.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nd04z2 (person)

Van Ells, Mark D. (Mark David), 1962-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64j0jgg (person)

United States. Army. Signal Corps

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dg0gvc (corporateBody)

Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...

McLeester, Carol G. B., 1921-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g204z2 (person)

McLeester (1921-2007), née Behling, served in the Army from 1944 to 1946. Prior to her military service, she graduated from River Falls Teachers College in 1941, taught rural schools in St. Croix County (Wisconsin) for two years, and worked at Wright Air Force Base as a civilian. After her discharge at the rank of TEC 4, McLeester earned a degree in home economics from the University of Minnesota, spent eighteen years at home raising four children in Minnesota, and work...

United Women Veterans.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz6xck (corporateBody)

Daughters of the American Revolution. Governor Nelson Dewey Chapter (Maple Bluff, Wis.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wb1zp8 (corporateBody)

Wisconsin Veterans Museum

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s5frp (corporateBody)