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Documents Inez Bailey's time at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina; her service with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Women's Army Corps (WAC) during WWII, and her subsequent military career. Bailey discusses transferring to Woman's College for their French department; her difficulties as a transfer student; and working in the cafeteria to pay for school. Other pre-war topics include teaching in Taylorsville, NC; living at home over the summers; and rooming with a girl whose fiancé was drafted after Pearl Harbor." Bailey recalls enlisting at a time when women's role in the military was unclear. She discusses being in the third class of officers at Fort Des Moines, and remembers her time at Daytona Beach, Florida, including living in old hotels; her marriage to Roy Bailey; and being given command of a company. She describes her role as a company commander at George Field in Illinois and reenlisting when the WAAC became the WAC. Topics relating to her time at Craig Field in Alabama include teaching English to members of the French Air Force; the French men's desperation to learn and return to Europe; and staying at the base through the end of the war." Bailey also explains her decision to remain in the army after World War II and details the remainder of her 33-year career with the WAC. She recalls being sent to Germany in the late 1940s; her work with intelligence in the early 1950s; recruiting women and working on traveling exhibits about women in the army in the late 1950s; and her job as a liaison to the Senate in the early 1960s. She also discusses her promotion to general and becoming director of the Women's Army Corps in 1971. Topics related to her tenure as director include visiting every area where women were stationed; checking the morale and welfare of the women, and visiting TV and radio stations in the area." Other topics include the effects of army scandals on servicewomen; army policies; the changing role of women in the military; and the responsibility of a female veteran to represent all women veterans.

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