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Dorothy H. Jordan, of the Bronx, New York, served in the Women's Army Corps from January 1944 through World War II. Dorothy H. Jordan grew up in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from George Washington High School in 1941. After graduation, she worked at a bank and a grocery store and then became a playground director. Jordan joined the Women's Army Corps in January 1944. Her basic training was at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she was assigned to Cooks and Bakers School before being re-assigned to the WAC Military Police (MP). Jordan stayed at Fort Oglethorpe until the WAC MPs were disbanded in 1945. She was sent to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, for reassignment, and then went to Percy Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan. There Jordan was an MP and then the Permanent CQ (Charge of Quarters), meaning that she only patrolled the barracks. After the war, Jordan went home on furlough due to illness, and then left the WAC not long after returning to duty. Jordan spent a year as a patient in Kingsbridge Veterans Hospital, the Bronx, New York, suffering from a skin condition and arsenic poisoning. She worked very little after she was released, having been deemed 100 percent disabled.