In the Company of Wacs

By Elna H. Grahn

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897451597
• ISBN13: 9780897451598
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Sunflower Univ Pr
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Brought back many memories

My mother, who enlisted in the WAAC when she turned 21 in 1943, would never write this review, so I wanted to pass along her first impressions. I gave this book to her this Christmas, and she said it was exactly as she remembered south post at Ft. Myer. She was in the 17th Signal, a crypto group that was kept apart from most of the WAAC/WACs, but shared most of the facilities. One way for the enlisted (she ended the war as a sergeant in the code room) to sleep was to take their bedding up on top of the jail and escape the summer heat. They all worked around the clock, and sleep never was easy in the double bunked dorms, as all shifts were mixed. Mom particularly regrets the loss of the Hobby hats (winter and summer) for the campaign hat, and has always wondered what happened to them all.