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Title	War veterans coming to enroll WACs
Newspaper	Journal (Muscatine, Iowa)
Date Original	1943-11-18
Description	Image of two war veterans accompanies article.
Note	Caption reads: Sgt. Roy L. Reynolds right, of Harrisburg, Ill., and Sgt. William A. Rich of Wilburton, Okla., (left), both veterans of overseas action, are with the Army Air Force team which will be in Muscatine Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 23 and 24 to select Air WACs from Muscatine county. Reynolds, who received a leg wound at Pearl Harbor, saw action at Midway, New Hebrides, the Solomons, New Guinea and the Fiji Islands. Rich, who wears four service ribbons, has spent most of his three years with the Air Force overseas. The two are shown at a WAC mess hall at Fort Des Moines, following an official inspection tour of the post. Iowa Air-WACs after basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., will be sent to army air bases for work associated with flying, such as link trainers, radio operating, parachute rigging, meteorology, air craft dispatching, and administrative jobs.
Topic	Women's military activity
Subject	United States. Army. Women's Army Corps World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female Women soldiers -- Iowa -- Fort Des Moines
Geographic Subject	United States -- Iowa -- Muscatine County -- Muscatine
Type	Text Clippings Still Image
Digital Format	image/jpeg
Digital Collection	World War II Iowa Press Clippings
Contributing Institution	State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City
Rights Management	This digital image may be used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission of the State Historical Society of Iowa.
Height (cm)	1 clipping : b&w ; 14 x 15 cm
Digitization Specifications	Master image scanned with Ricoh Aficio MP C3000 as a JPEG at 600 ppi.
Date Digital	2007-06-25
File Name	1943-11-18-02.jpg
Theme	World War II
Language	eng
Full Text	Journal Muscatine, Iowa y i a 1943 ——~^~— -----------------------------------------------------------------------=-¦ ------- —., War Veterans Coming to Enroll WACs Muscatine Tuesday and Wednesday Nov 21 ,^ oa,T.A^ FOfCe team which wiU ** ia Reynolds, who received1 a leTw^,,mi Y £,!? £ J to seleo* Air WACs from Muscatine county. Solomons', New Gulea and ^7^ 1^2^"^ * M'dwalvN™ Hebrides, the of his three years with the Air Force VverL ft tt, «fi7 '7^J%%au> has s>ent >« Des Moines, following an offloW^S^Jr^ofX post" ^ '* * ™A° MCSS ha" at Fort for wo™ a1^ted%vfthrf,yS: J5P&1& 'SLS^ST" "* * "»* t0 ™ air *— 1 jology, air craft di^tcl^ iiSft^

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