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Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the Women's Army Corps (WAC)

2014-3387
Accession Number
2014-3387
5x7 inches (13x18 cm)
Black & White
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Description
From left to right, Mrs. Betsy Talbot Blackwell, Editor-in-Chief of "Mademoiselle", Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret), the second director of the WAC (1945-1947); Lieutenant Colonel Norma M. Flachsland, WAC Staff Advisor for the First Army at Fort Jay, Major General Robert H. Booth, Chief of Staff, First United States Army; Mrs. Webster Todd, and Mrs. Robert H. Booth. Lieutenant Colonel Flachsland and Major General Booth are cutting into a cake at a celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Women's Army Corps. Mrs. Blackwell and Mrs. Todd were members of the Defense Advisory Committee for Women in the Armed Forces.
Date(s)
May 14, 1957