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Dorothy May Miller (1922-2005) of Lakeland, Florida, was a medical technician and mail clerk in African American units of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Dorothy Thelma May Miller was born 11 February 1922 in Sandersville, Georgia, and raised in Lakeland, Florida, by her mother, a schoolteacher and domestic. Miller attended Washington Park High School in Rochelle, Florida, but dropped out to have her first child. She enlisted in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on 1 March 1943. Miller entered active duty on 20 April 1943 and was sent to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for basic training. When the WAAC became the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in the spring of 1943, Miller was sent to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, for advanced basic [...] Read more
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