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Ethel LeBlanc Palma (b. 1919) of Timberton, Louisiana, served as a recruiter and mail censor while serving with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942 to 1945. Ethel LeBlanc Palma was born 2 May 1919 in Timberton, Louisiana, to Cajun parents. She was raised in DeQuincy, Louisiana, where her father owned a bottling plant, and graduated from the local high school in 1936. She attended Draughon's Business College in Houston, Texas, for a year, and then went to work at her uncle's Coca-Cola bottling plant as a bookkeeper for two years. In 1939, Palma moved to New Orleans and worked for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. In December of 1942 Palma joined the WAAC. She was sent the following month to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, for basic [...] Read more
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