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Image of a Negro WAAC and soldier being served a drink by a member of the YWCA accompanies article. Caption reads: It was home-cooked food for Negro soldiers and Negro WAACs Saturday night at the Blue Triangle branch of the Y.W.C.A., 1407 Center st. At a table are Miss Noel Campbell, 23, an officer candidate, of Tuskegee, Ala.; Mrs. Helen Beshears, 1127 Eleventh st., chairman of the Blue Triangle branch committee of management, and Pvt. Robert Parker, 22, Des Moines. E-mail inquiries for the State Historical Society of Iowa should be directed to history.research@iowa.gov or library.st@uiowa.ed Master image scanned with Ricoh Aficio 3228C as a JPEG at 600 ppi. Register Des Moines, Iowa IU 9 1942 N^rolWAACs and Soldiers Entertained It was home-cooked food for Negro soldiers and Negro WAACs Saturday night at the Blue Triangle branch of the Y.W.C.A., 1407 Center st. At a table are Miss Noel Campbell, 23, an officer candidate, of Tuskegee, Ala.; Mrs. Helen Beshears, 1127 Eleventh st., chairman of the Blue Triangle branch committee of management, and Pvt. Robert Parker, 22, Des Moines.______________________ Thirty Negro soldiers from Camp Dodge and 20 Negro WAACs | from Fort Des Moines army post were entertained at a potluck din-Iner Saturday night at the Blue I Triangle branch of the Y.W.C.A., 1407 Center st. The affair was sponsored by the Blue Triangle branch, the Crocker street branch of the Y.M.C.A. and | the Negro Community center. The soldiers and WAACs danced and played cards after the dinner, which...
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