VMI88 Posted November 19, 2016 Share #1 Posted November 19, 2016 These were a recent antique store find: The woman was a WAC assigned to the Awards and Decorations Section, Adjutant General's Office, 5th Army HQ. She served in North Africa and Italy. Her husband served in the 130th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion, 8th Armored Division. He served in Germany and Czechoslovakia. This was all I could find with some basic research but I hope to find out more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USdog Posted November 19, 2016 Share #2 Posted November 19, 2016 Great tags! Some nice history there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1st Sgt CES Posted November 22, 2016 Share #3 Posted November 22, 2016 Great find----nice tags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zsmith Posted November 22, 2016 Share #4 Posted November 22, 2016 I did a little digging and found a couple of items that might interest you. Robert listed as Tec 5 with Co A of the 130th Ord: http://www.8th-armored.org/books/130-Arm-Ord.pdf I was able to find his wife and her maiden name was Mendenhall. Here is a link to some info about her from the Truman Library: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=48210 And her NARA file: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=WR26&tf=F&sc=24994,24995,24996,24998,24997,24993,24981,24983&bc=sl,fd&txt_24994=801191&op_24994=0&nfo_24994=V,8,1900&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=104646 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMI88 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share #5 Posted November 26, 2016 Thanks for the information! I had turned up her maiden name but not the photo. Apparently she was an enlisted WAC and later became an officer: the dog tags have the same serial number but with an "L" prefix instead of "A". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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