Josephine Downey papers, 1929-1947.

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Josephine Downey papers, 1929-1947.

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Correspondence, diaries, military records, campaign ribbons, essays, and photographs related to a St. Paul (Minn.) woman's teaching experience in a small South Dakota town (1929); her travels in Europe (1931, 1936) and Mexico (1939); and her World War II service as a cryptographer with the Women's Army Corps in New Guinea (1944- 1945) and the Philippines (1945-1946).

0.75 cubic feet (1 box).

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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...

Downey, Josephine, 1907-

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