Interview of Rose Stornant on her service as a legal secretary in the Women's Army Corps during WWII
Rose Stornant talks about her service as a legal secretary in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Stornant recalls her training and her different U.S. assignments before being shipped to England in March 1944. She remembers being in Salisbury England watching the gliders and Airborne troop transports heading for Normandy on D-Day and says that she wasn't sent to France until November 1944. Stornant says that she was in Paris during the Battle of the Bulge at the end of 1944 and also talks about Christmas in Paris, the celebrations on V-E Day, Bastille Day, and V-J Day and finally earning enough points to be sent back to the States. She says that she worked in Chicago for a short time after the war, but finally returned to Lansing, MI to reclaim her old job. Stornant is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1984-07-11
- Interviewees
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Stornant, Rose, 1915-2002
- Interviewers
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Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918-
- Subjects
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Stornant, Rose, 1915-2002
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
United States. Army
Battle of the Ardennes (1944-1945)
V-E Day (1945)
V-J Day (1945)
World War (1939-1945)
Armed Forces--Military life
Military campaigns
Military participation--Female
Veterans
Women veterans
France--Normandy
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:58:08
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 32769
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11759892
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