Documents Ethel LeBlanc Palma's early life; her work as a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) recruiter stateside and a foreign mail censorer in the Pacific during World War II; and her personal life after the war. Prominent pre-war topics discussed by Palma include her Cajun family heritage; attending a business college in Houston, Texas; working for her uncle at a Coca-Cola bottling plant; and working for the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans when war was declared. Palma also describes her recruitment and decision to join the WAAC; details of her basic training and Officer Training School at Fort Des Moines, Iowa; and her activities as a recruiter in Watertown, New York, and Wilmington, Delaware, especially her speaking engagements. Palma recalls her experiences crossing the Pacific on a converted cruise ship; arriving at Sydney, Australia, and later New Guinea; and details of her mail censoring activities, including monitoring unit morale and deciding which officers to spot check. Of particular note are Palma's memories of Leyte and Manila in the Philippines, where she was sent immediately following the end of battles. She describes living in a Catholic school that was the site of a massacre by the Japanese; discovering two wounded Japanese soldiers hiding in the wreckage and the body of a baby burnt alive; bartering with the natives; and working with Filipinos. Palma also reflects on her return to the U.S. aboard a converted ferry carrying former American POWs; her husband Elwood Palma's military career; her past and present political views; the role of faith in a war zone; and her work with the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in North Carolina.