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[[image: photo of woman military enlistee working in a lab]]
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For WAC Pfc. Ella Spenney of Red Bank, N.J., lab work at Madigan Gen'l Hospital, Tacoma, Wash., is easy. She's member of the 9952 WAC Det. under the command of 1st Lt. Margaret E. Barnes.

WADCS, WAFS,

● Negro women specialists served with the Army and Navy during World War II. Enlisting when the Women's Army Corps was founded in July, 1942, Maj. Charity Adams commanded a Negro WAC unit overseas. Maj. Harriet West, another of the Army's Negro pioneers, was chief of the Planning Bureau Control Division in the Army's Washington headquarters. Pacesetters in the Navy were Lt. Harriet Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills. There were no Negro WAFS or women Marines during the war.

Today Negro women hold responsible jobs in all branches of the service within the Zone of the Interior, and in Europe and Japan. Capt. Blanche Scott commands the all-Negro WAC detachment at Fort Dix. Others who command Negro WAC units with strategic jobs are Lt. Margaret Barnes at Madigan General Hospital, Tacoma, Washington, and Lt. Doris Williamson at Fort Lewis, Washington.

At present Negro WACS number 594. There are 200 WAFS. Typical of these is S/Sgt. Annie Moore of Lackland AFB, Texas. Flight leader of 127 white and Negro WAFS, she is a member of the permanent party on the base. Figures on the number of Negro WAVES are not available. An estimate places them at 15. There are only two Negro women on active duty in the Marine Corps. After training at Parris Island, South Carolina, on a completely unsegregated basis, they are on assignment at National Marine Headquarters in Washington.

[[image center #1: 3 military women conferring together in office]]
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A vet of 6 years, S/Sgt. Annie Moore confers at Lackland with Lt. Johnson and Pfc. Alice Albright.

[[image center #2: 5 military women in a room talking]]
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Meeting in Doris Willis' room one night, these Lackland WAF's found all were from Birmingham.

[[image center #3: two military women in hats and full uniform]]
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First Negro women in Marines are Pfc. Ann Lamb, of New York and Pfc. Anne Graham of Detroit.

[[boxed]] Only Negro WAVE at Norfolk Base is cute Clevelander Clara Carroll who thinks the Navy is "tops for girls."

● At Norfolk Naval Base, a charming brown-skinned girl from Cleveland, is the sole Negro Wave. But that makes no difference to "C.C." Carroll. Studying comes to her easily. She has done 2½ years at Howard. She left for New York to make some money to continue college. Last year, despondent, she realized she would never save the necessary money. She joined the Navy and found "the opportunities I wanted."

[[image: photo of woman enlistee]]
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Clara, called "C.C.." by roommates, enlisted last year, attends school.

[[image: photo of a women's choir group]]
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She joins in all activity on unsegregated Base, eats, lives with others.

[[image: photo of 3 women playing pool]]
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Pool is not her best game, but she plays to relax. Prefers swimming]] [[/boxed]]

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