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Interview of Jane Piatt on her service in the Women's Army Corps during WWII and in the Korean War

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Piatt, Jane

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Jane Piatt, chair of the Women's Overseas Service League's National Oral History Project, talks about her service in the Women's Army Corps during World War Two and in the Korean War. Piatt speaks at length about her time as a mess hall chief at Fort Des Moines and her time working with both Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, the first director of the Women's Army Corps and Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams, the first African-American woman to become a commissioned officer in the WACs. Piatt also talks about her jobs as an air inspector and the head of an officer's club in the United States near the end of the war and leaving active duty in 1947, only to be recalled during the Korean conflict. During the Korean War, she says that she served in England at both Burtonwood Air Force Base as an air inspector and at Brize Norton Air Force Base as an administrative assistant. Piatt is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
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Hornbacher, Elsie1918Vincent Voice LibraryUniversity of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries
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Keywords

  1. Army
  2. Commissariat
  3. Earley, Charity Adams
  4. Foreign Service
  5. Hobby, Oveta Culp
  6. Interviews
  7. Korean War, 1950 1953
  8. Military Life
  9. Participation, Female
  10. Personal Narratives, American
  11. Piatt, Jane
  12. United States
  13. Veterans
  14. Women
  15. Women Veterans
  16. Women's Army Corps
  17. World War, 1939 1945

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