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Cake Cutting Celebration for the Sixteenth Anniversary of the Women's Army Corps

2014-3394
Accession Number
2014-3394
5x7 inches (13x18 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348666553
Related Collection
Long, Westray Battle Boyce Papers
Keywords
Armed forces officers
Cake
Parties
Women
Women soldiers
People Pictured
Blackwell, Betsy Talbot, 1905-1985
Bryan, Blackshear M. (Blackshear Morrison), 1900-1977
Flachsland, Norma M.
Long, Westray Battle Boyce, 1901-1972
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U.S. Army

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Description
A cake cutting celebration takes place at Fort Jay, New York for the sixteenth anniversary of the founding of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). From left to right: Major H. B. Meisner, First Army Comptroller Section; Lieutenant Colonel Norma M. Flachsland, First Army WAC Staff Advisor; Lieutenant General B. M. Bryan, Commanding General of the First Army; Mrs. Betty Talbot Blackwell, editor of "Mademoiselle" magazine and member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services; Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret), second director of the WAC; and Captain Moorsman from Fort Slocum.
Date(s)
May 14, 1958