Stateside soldier
Subtitle: life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944 1945
By: Aileen Kilgore Henderson.
Series: Women's diaries and letters of the South
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, 1921-; United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Diaries.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; Women soldiers -- United States -- Diaries.
Genres: Personal narratives, American.; Diaries.
Description: ""I don't know anybody who has ever done such a daring thing as I have done," twenty-two year old Aileen Kilgore of Brookwood, Alabama, wrote in her diary in January 1944, after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. From basic training in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to her discharge in late 1945, Kilgore served as one of more than 150,000 American women who joined the Women's Army Corps - the first group of women other than nurses to serve in the ranks of the United States Army.

Now, more than fifty years later, Aileen Kilgore Henderson has collected and edited diary entries and personal letters that recount in an engaging narrative style her twenty-three months of experiences in the Army. A skilled writer of fiction and nonfiction, Henderson addresses a little-explored facet of World War II - the military service of women stationed stateside."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.