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Judy Covington McKinnon (b. 1923) of Richmond County, North Carolina, worked in the motor pool and in the mess hall while in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Judy Covington McKinnon was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, on 3 May 1923, the daughter of a sharecropper. She graduated from high school in Ellerbe and worked as a housekeeper before joining the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in May 1942. McKinnon was inducted in Charlotte and completed basic training in a segregated African American unit at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. She then worked in the motor pool at Fort Rucker, Alabama, before attended cooks and bakers school at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. She remained at Fort Huachuca working in the mess hall, and later worked in [...] Read more
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