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Betty Baker (1922-2012), of Culpepper, Virginia, was an air base historian and a troop information and education specialist with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1944 to 1946. Betty Baker was born in Culpepper, Virginia, where her father was a small manufacturer and her mother a school teacher. She was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Dickson, Tennessee, where she graduated from high school. Baker attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1939 to 1944 and majored in English. During that time she also worked for one year at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory in Baltimore, Maryland. Baker enlisted in the WAC in the spring of 1944. She completed basic training at Fort Oglethorpe in [...] Read more
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