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Brig. Gen. Mildred Inez Caroon Bailey (1919-2009) served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Woman's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942 to 1975, the last four years as director of the WAC. Mildred Inez C. Bailey was born in 1919 in Fort Barnwell, North Carolina, and raised in nearby Kinston. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in Flora McDonald College in Red Springs, North Carolina. She transferred to the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in her sophomore year and graduated in 1940. After graduation, she attended summer school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bailey went on to teach French in Taylorsville, North Carolina. Bailey joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps [...] Read more
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