Constance Cline Phillips Collection
Content Description
The collection includes various Women's Army Corps publications, 1944; 2 event programs, 1945; various photographs of Phillips Women's Army Corps service with the Women's Army Corps, 1945-1946; various military papers with identification passes, 1945-1946; correspondence with her parents and friends, February-April 1945, January-August 1946; an oral history transcript, 24 May 1999.
Dates
- circa 1943-1999
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Constance Phillips (1924-2014) of Concord, North Carolina, was an X-ray technician in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1945 to 1946.
Constance Cline Phillips was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1924 to a businessman and a World War I nurse. She was raised in Concord, North Carolina, and graduated from Concord High School in 1942. She then enrolled at the Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and also took summer courses at Appalachian State Teachers College (now Appalachian State University).
After having difficulties with her course requirements, Phillips joined the Women's Army Corps in February 1945 . Phillips attended basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was then sent to Camp Atterbury, Indiana, where she attended X-ray school. Phillips was stationed at Nichols General Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, from August 1945 to March 1946. In April and May of 1946 she was stationed at Ashford General Hospital in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. Phillips was transferred to Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, in June of 1946 and was there until August.
On 22 August 1946, Phillips was discharged from the army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After her discharge, Phillips returned to finish her education at Woman's College on the GI Bill. She worked for a summer on a State of North Carolina mobile X-ray unit. She married in September 1948 and went on to teach in Wilmington, Delaware, for a year, while her husband played professional football for the Baltimore Colts. She also lived in Richmond and nearby Midlothian, Virginia, while raising three children.
Extent
3.21 Linear Feet (8 folders, Oversized Box 2.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is fair.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Phillips, Constance Cline
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- History
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Interviews
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Military life
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Armed Forces -- United States -- Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- Title
- Constance Cline Phillips Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 May
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository