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Emily Sullivan Newcity (1922-2014), of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, served as a stenographer in the WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) and the WAC (Women's Army Corps) from August 1943 to October 1945, in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. Emily Sullivan Newcity was born on June 12, 1922 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. After she graduated from high school in 1940, her family moved to Ossining, New York, where she worked at a clerk typist at Maryknoll Seminary. When her mother died shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she moved to Brooklyn and worked at New York Central Building (now Helmsley Building) on Park Avenue. When Newcity turned twenty-one in 1943, she enlisted in the WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps). She arrived at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for basic [...] Read more
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