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Tickets to WAACParty Aboard ShipWereLegalTenderWAAC REPLACEMENT DEPOT,England, July 19-~On the trip over, the WAACs invited a small number of the men aboard to some parties. The lucky men drew for passes. These were so valuable they were accepted as legal tender in high stake crap games.Less than a day out the soldiers aboard♦the WAAC transport had establishedlines of communications. Lengths of lines, weighted with tent pegs, were swung outboard carrying messages to the portholes of the WAACs’ cabins. ‘*1 come from Des Moines. I am a sergeant. Who are you and what do you look like?*1 they read. Internal communications were established via the ventilator shafts. WAAC officers pointed out that all mail should be censored ... it wasn't.First soldier spotted by Pfc Elizabeth Hamilton, of West Palm Beach, Fla., when she stepped off the train was her boy friend, S/S Gilbert Burton, of Anderson, S.C. He was sergeant of the guard at the station. Ex-manager of the West Palni night club, Pfc Hamilton was classified as a cook bv the WAAC. Pvt. Ruth Havens, of Hornell, N.Y., also met the boy friend, Pfc Maurice Gately, of Danville, Ark., at a dance to welcome the WAACs.Two sisters made the trip—Pvt. (Mrs.) Margaret R. Cclter, of Flemingsburg, Ke., and Pfc (Miss) Nancy S. Lovell, of Atlanta, Ga.The WAACs came from all sorts of civilian jobs: T/4 Rena E. Owen used to be a farmer in Comanche, Tex. T/5Emma M. Rose, of Crichton. Ala., was a bartacker. S/Sgt. Lorraine W. Hatcher, of Los Angeles, was a telephone informal ion ist. S/Sgt. Florence A. Irvin, was a sugar artist in ;North Hollywood.CpI. iMargie Williams, a Pottawatomie Indian, of Sisseton, S.D., is waiting for 2,/Lt. Pauline Abell, of Spokane, Wash., to open up the WAAC supply depot here. Margie was brought into this trip at two hours’ notice, pinch hitting for a girl that fell sick. She came across in a medley of clothes, some borrowed, some dug up from odd places.Pvt. Mary E. Ovies, of St. Louis, Mo., was a paper slitter. Pvt. Helen L. McKenna, of Jersey City, was a coil winder. T/5 Elsie /V. Hartman, of Buffalo, N.Y., was chrge of personnel in a Department of the Interior office. Pfc Iona M. Brown, of Groton, N.Y., was a sorter of typewriter parts, and so was(Continued on page 4)
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London Stars and Stripes
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Jul 20, 1943
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