Rachel Summers McGee Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 January 1999; various photographs of McGee during her service, circa 1942 and undated; 1 newspaper clipping featuring McGee, undated; 2 pages from "Army Life" magazine, May 1943; a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps summer khaki uniform with leather pocketbook.
Dates
- circa 1942-1943
Creator
- McGee, Rachel Summers (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Rachel Leuella Summers McGee (1920-2007) of Greensboro, North Carolina, was a teletype operator in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) from 1942 to 1943. Rachel Leuella Summers McGee of Greensboro, North Carolina, was born on 5 August 1920. She graduated from Bessemer High School and began working as a teletype operator for Western Union.
McGee enlisted in the WAAC in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in the fall of 1942. She attended basic training at Fort Des Moines in Iowa in November 1942. In early 1943, McGee was assigned to the Communications Center at Fort Knox in Kentucky. She served with the WAAC for nearly one year and then chose to be discharged when the auxiliary corps became the Women's Army Corps (WAC).
After her discharge from the military, McGee returned to work for Western Union. She worked for the company for nearly forty years, in both California and the Greensboro area. She and her husband had one son. Rachel McGee died on 13 February 2007.
Extent
3.21 Linear Feet (3 folders, 1 textile box)
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.
- United States. Army -- Women
- United States. Army--Women
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Military life
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Uniforms
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- Title
- The Rachel Summers McGee 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