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LONDON, Feb. 20 (ANP)— History was made in England when a battalion of Negro Wacs arrived at Birmingham, Eng., by special train recently. The unit consisted of 677 enlisted women and 26 offi cers under the command of Maj. Charity Edna Adams, former school teacher of Columbia, S. C. The girls were greeted at the railroad station by the 10th Re placement band. They displayed their vigorous young blood when they marched energetically to wait ing vehicles by the strains of “Stars and Stripes” while laden with full field equipment. Officials of the European theater of operations were on hand to wel come them. Among them were Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, represent ing Gen. John C. Lee, Mary C. Weems, Dayton, Tenn., represent ing the ETO Wac staff director; Lt. Col. Ann W. Wilson, Study City, Cal.; Maj. Margaret L. Philpot, Portland, Me., Wac staff; Maj. Kenneth Campbell, Chicago, direc tor for UK bases and Chaplain Beverly M. Ward, Capital Street Presbyterian church, Harrisburg, Pa. Every detail for the comfort of the girls had been considered in ad vance. They will return to America after a brief orientation and train ing period here. Maj. Adams, their commander, is a decided success. The daughter of the Rev. John Ad ams, a distinguished AME church official, she is the incarnation of clear common sense. She has skill fully extricated herself from many awkward questions thrown at her with lightning rapidity from a bat tery of newspaper reporters.
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The Daily Bulletin
Dayton, Ohio, US
Tue, Feb 20, 1945
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