WAC Attached to Fort Riley, Kansas

Title: WAC Attached to Fort Riley, Kansas
Date Created: 1943-09-06
Subject: Smith, Alice See all items with this value
Temporal Coverage: World War, 1939-1945 See all items with this value
Spatial Coverage: Bethlehem (Pa.) See all items with this value
Creator: The Bethlehem globe-times. (Bethlehem, Pa.) 1925-1977
Identifier: ww2-13476
Description: Clipping extracted from The Bethlehem globe-times pertaining to WWII military personnel from the Lehigh Valley, part of the BAPL WWII Newspaper Clipping Collection.
Digital Format: application/pdf
Language: English
Publisher: Bethlehem Area Public Library
Contributor: Entries added in 2018, funded in part by the Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative of Lehigh University.
Date Submitted: 2018-06-01
content: FORT RILEY, Kans. -- Pvt. Alice H. Smith, 21, daughter of Mrs. Edna M. Smith, 638 Jischke Stree, Bethlehem, has arrived at Fort Riely as a "charter member" of Post Headquarters WAC Detachment No. 2. the first organization of Negro women soldiers to be activated at this historic cavalry post.