Ethel Palma and her Officer Candidate School (OCS) graduating class at the First WAC Training Center at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa, on July 14, 1943. Commanding officers listed[...]

Ethel Palma and the 19th Company of the 21st Regiment pose at the the Third WAC Training Center at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, on June 10, 1944.

Ethel Palma (right) and two fellow Army members aboard the USS Evangeline as it leaves Manila, Philippines, in September 1945.

Ethel Palma seated in center with lei, surrounded by her Filipino employees, 2 May 1944.

Ethel Palma seated outside the Allied Officers Club in Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1944.

Ethel Palma sits aboard the USS Evangeline, returning the the U.S. from the Philippines, September 1945.

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 [...]

First WAAC portrait of Ethel Palma, 1943.

Three WACs, possibly including Ethel LeBlanc Palma, are seated at a table outdoors, while a native, probably of New Guinea, stands behind them, 1944

WAC friends and coworkers of Ethel LeBlanc Palma read mail in New Guinea, 1944.

Ethel Palma, along with fellow WACs and male Army soldiers, sunbathe at an unidenified locale in the Pacific theatre, circa 1944.