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Privates Thea Coates, Mattie Turner, and Francis Cockran, members of the WAC detachment of the Parachute School, assist soldiers in dropping an equipment bundle from the door of an army transport plane over Fort Benning, Georgia. Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Title
WACs assisting paratroopers
Contributor
Fortune, Reva Pauline Ingram, Curator
Date
1945
Topic Area
Women's History
Schools and Colleges
Military
Keyword
UNCG ; Alumni
Place
Fort Benning (Ga.)|Fort Benning (Ga.)
Service Branch
Army -- WAC
Army -- AAF
Army -- WAF
Air Force -- WAF
Conflict / Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject Heading
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
United States. Air Force
Type
Image
Format
photographs
Language
English
Contributing Institution
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Archival Context
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries; Reva Ingram Fortune Collection
Identifier
WV0034.6.005
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(http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/) IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
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Digital History Collections > University of North Carolina at Greensboro > Women Veterans Historical Project Collections > - R - > Reva Ingram Fortune Collection
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