Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945

by Aileen Kilgore Henderson

The World War II homefront comes alive through the eyes of an enlisted female soldier

"I don't know anybody who has ever done such a daring thing as I have done," twenty-two-year-old Aileen Kilgore of Brookwood, Alabama, wrote in her diary in January 1944, after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. From basic training in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to her discharge in late 1945, Kilgore served as one of more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157003396X
• ISBN13: 9781570033964
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"