New recruits of WAACS sworn in. Part of a class of sixteen young women sworn into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps by Major Ina M. McFadden, recruiting officer for the Washington Military District, Thursday evening, January 7, at a public ceremony at the Cordoza High School. Those sworn into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and now awaiting call to active duty are: Misses Neppie Stoker Anderson, Joye Pamela Arnold, Elizabeth Orlean Garrett, Juanita Greene, Elsie Givens, Farieta Hall, Lillie B. Harrison, Marie Humphrey, Nancy McCall, Evelyn F. Overton, Isabelle Peterson, Mittie Lee Thomas, Grace Elizabeth Thompson, Jeanne Cecelia Webster, Catherine Geneva Brown and Ernestine Louise Woods. A drive for 150 Negro recruits from the Military District of Washington is now in progress, Major McFadden announced
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Date
01/01/1943
Contributors
Smith, Roger, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain