.:. WAAC Photo Album .:.

[ww2vault]

Hi,

 

Well this is my 1,000th post, Yay! Not a bad subject for it either! I acquired a WAAC album with 85 photos in it. I don't know to much about the lady. I bought it from a lady who was friends with the WAAC woman and she couldn't tell me a whole lot about her.

 

I do know though that she was sent to the Pacific and some of the islands she was on was Papua New Guinea and Manila. In some of the photos the SSI I see some wearing appears to be the 9th Service Command patch. This is a lucky WAAC album I have found though, for out of the 100,000 WAC's in the war, just around 17,000 of them served overseas.

 

Hopefully some one here has some good knowledge of WAC's and could help me out a little on finding more about the lady. As always, comments are welcomed.

 

Photo 1: Album Cover.

 

Photo 2: Page 1.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 2; On the top right photo it is captioned:

 

.:. Gussie -I

.:. Wilma -I

.:. Marie -I

.:. Helen -I

.:. Lowise -I

.:. Warmonth -I

.:. Lurner -I

 

Photo 2: Page 3.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 4. The far left photo has this stamped on the back: "Photo by The Russell Record; Russell, Kansas". Then in pen below that is, "Sgt. Rita M. Good."

 

Photo 2: Page 5.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 6.

 

Photo 2: Page 7.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 8.

 

Photo 2: Page 9.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 10.

 

Photo 2: Page 11. These three photos plus some on the next three pages I think are all taken in Pittsburgh, PA. The building in the middle of the far right photo says, "Carpenters Hall" Near the roof.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 12. The statue in the middle and right photo says Barry under it.

 

Photo 2: Page 13. The far left photo says, "Berger Bros Company" on the window. All three of these photos seem to be taken for the house with the white door, could it be a famous landmark of a person that lived in Pittsburgh?

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 14. In the photo on the far left there is a sign next to the lady that says, "-313- The Philadelphia Clearing House". Also, the sign in the middle photo says, "Ye Olde Alley; Tobacco Refreshment Shoppe of Poor Richard."

 

Photo 2: Page 15. The next seven pages are photos of them on a beach in the U.S. somewhere.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 16.

 

Photo 2: Page 17.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 18.

 

Photo 2: Page 19.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 20. The lady in the right photo is the one I think the album belongs to.

 

Photo 2: Page 21. The lady in the left photo is the suspect album owner.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 22. The album owner standing with some kids.

 

Photo 2: Page 23. A lady is sitting on top of a tree trunk that has, "W.A.A.C Training Center" carved into it. On the back of the photo she wrote, "Honny at Fort Oglethorpe". I looked it up and the fort is located in Georgia.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 24. Now begins the photos that I think are all from the Pacific. The top left photo is of a thatched roof church on an island somewhere.

 

Photo 2: Page 25. The bottom right photo is of a native man and boy walking down the beach, the man looks like he knows to wave at the camera!

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 26.

 

Photo 2: Page 27.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 28. On the back is written, "Our latrine at Oro Bay before it was blown up." Three words you never want to hear, blown up and latrine!

 

Photo 2: Page 29. Two photos of what looks like ten WAC's sitting under a shelter.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 30. The left photo is of a WAC handing candy to the island native kids.

 

Photo 2: Page 31. The left photo says on the back, "Mac - Graw McDade; Ellie - Eleanor Miller". And the photo on the right says, "Mike + Rita (Denault)"

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 32. The photo on the right says "Renie Bell" on the back.

 

Photo 2: Page 33. The photo on the left says, "Renie Bell" on the back and in pencil is written, Hosker, which might be the last name of the album owner. Also, the photo on the right has, "Love, Honny" written on the front and "Irene Houerffer (Little One)" on the back.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 34. The photo on the right has, "Jerry (Ann Sierault) + I in front of our pavilion at Oro Bay" on the back.

 

Photo 2: Page 35. The photo on the left has, "San Sebastian Church; Manila, Sept. 45" on the back. The photo on the right has, "Alter of San Sebastian's Church, Manila, Sept. 45" on the back.

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 36. The photo on the left says, "Home of real estate mauf; Manila, Sept. 45"

 

Photo 2: Page 37. The photo on the left says, "Church in Silany, Philippines; Sept. 45" Then the photo on the right says, "Chinese Cemetery, Manila; Sept. 45; Remember? Who could sarge."

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 38. The photo on the left says, "People die to get into the...(Rest was cut off); Another Chinese "grave", Manila Cemetery; Sept. 45" Then the photo on the right says, "Mausaleum(?) in Chinese Cemetery, Manila; Sept. 45"

 

Photo 2: Page 39. The photo on the left says, "Lake Saol(?), P.D.; Sept. 45" The photo on the right says the following on the front, "I shall never forget, Bill" then on the back is written, "Sgt. W. F. Daley; Helglrs(?) P.M. Manila; APO 75"

 

- Jeff

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Photo 1: Page 40.

 

On a final note, please excuse the fuzzy pictures. I am using a new camera that I am not quite use to yet.

 

- Jeff

[a6skin9]

There was a group of WACs who served as cryptanalysts with MacArthur's GHQ at New Guinea and later the Philippines.

Do you have the woman's name, also any names that you find on the back of photos? These could be used to possibly help with research. I have a WAC officer's photo album and she was stationed at New Guinea, Philippines and Tokyo. She has all kinds of names written down and there is also a book written by an enlisted WAC who was stationed at these places and I was able to match faces from my album to some of those in the book. If you want to compare notes give me shout.

[ww2vault]

Hi there,

 

Thank you for the reply. Everything such as names and captions I wrote down on each post, there were some names mentioned and locations, just re-read all of my posts.

 

The ladies friend from which I acquired the album from was called, Glenda Freeman. She has passed away now but I doubt she was the one who took the pictures. She was in the Navy and the lady thinks she was born in the late 30's. She said that it might have belonged to a relative of Mrs. Freeman.

 

In one of my post near the end I said a last name that was written on the back of a couple photos which I think might... might be the lady who took the pictures.

 

Of course any help that you could provide would be extremely helpful and appreciated. Thanks!

 

- Jeff

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Ah, I just read your signature a6skin9, and I just had to comment on it. I think every single word of it is true and is how I have always felt about this country, especially with the Mexican situation going on in the southwest.

 

Just in case you change your signature, I shall re-post it.

 

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American . . . There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have no room for but one flag, the American Flag . . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language . . . and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

 

- Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

 

 

- Jeff

[El Bibliotecario]

For anyone interested in more information on the WAC, I'd recommend the following;

 

http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Wac/index.htm

 

This is the army's official history of the WAC, available on line at no charge. I found it very objective. It makes one appreciate the service of these women.