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Jennie Straight's Women's Army Corps papers
Ms2023-031


Folder 1:

1.1 Regulations (26 pp); Special Orders No. 173 Extract (includes Jennie Straight from WV) 19 Jul 1943; and Headquarters Reception and Staging Battalion 2nd WAAC Training Center at Daytona Beach, FL, instructions to new arrivals, 2 pp.
1.2 Army Services Forces to Aux. Jennie Straight at Fairmont, WV advising upcoming end of present WAAC and option to join WAC. n.d.
1.3 Memo to all enlisted WAC completing basic training, n.d.
1.4 Government request for transportation for Straight via Pullman from WV to FL plus 2 infoslips, 22 Jul 1943
1.5 Card: Class A Pass at Alpine, TX for Straight, 17 Sept 1943
1.6 Memo: WAC Branch at Alpine, TX about completion of course study, 10 Nov 1943, 4 pp.
1.7 Special Order No. 291 from Ft Leonard Wood, 6 Dec 1943. 2 pp, 3 copies.
1.8 Special Order No. 14 from Army & Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, AR, 19 Jan 1944. 4 pp.
1.9 Memo: from WAC Detachment 1751 SU at Ft Leonard Wood, 7 Nov 1944, advising WAC rules & regulations. 10 pp.
1.10 War Dept. to T/S Jennie Straight at Ft Leonard Wood, 14 May 1945 on 3rd anniversary of WAC and celebrating VE Day.
1.11 Census 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950; army enlistment record from NARA; 1926 news clipping on Straight as high school basketball player.


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