Primarily documents Margaret "Peggy" W. Reeve's service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1944 to 1945 and her career as a secretary. Reeve discusses her decision to join the WAC in the spring of 1944, including her failure to meet other branches' height requirement; basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; drilling and marching; her uniform; her reflections on being in the South for the first time; experience as a married woman in the military; and details of her work in the personnel unit at Westover Field, Massachusetts, and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina, including the protection of payroll cash. " Other subjects include Reeve's employment as a secretary before and after the war and her post-war education.