Charlotte E. Ward Diary
Content Description
The collection includes a diary Ward recorded her experiences in the Women's Army Corps and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps from February to October 1943.
Dates
- 1943 February to October
Creator
- Ward, Charlotte E. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Charlotte E. Ward (1914-1988), of Delaware, Indiana, served with the United States Army Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and then the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945. Ward joined the WAAC on 13 February, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio. She did her basic training at the 2nd WAAC Training Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. She was assigned to the First WAAC Separate Battalion. She continued her training at Camp Polk, Louisiana and then Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where she prepared for deployment to England. She was assigned to the 169th Post Headquarters company and then transferred to Camp Shanks, New York before shipping overseas. Ward arrived on 15 July, 1943 in Great Britian. She was reassigned to the 76th WAC company and worked in operations at the 8th Army Air Force Bomber Command Headquarters at High Wycombe, England. Ward returned to the United States and left the army in late 1945.
Extent
1.05 Linear Feet (Scrapbook box with diary inside.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Charlotte E. Ward (1914-1988), of Delaware, Indiana, served with the United States Army Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and then the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945.
The collection includes a diary Ward recorded her experiences in the Women's Army Corps and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps from 1943 February to October.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into the following series: diary.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Title
- Charlotte E. Ward Diary
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 June
- 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