Interview of Hazel M. Hamilton on her service in the U.S. Women's Army Corps during WWII
Hazel M. Hamilton, formerly a sergeant in the Women's Army Corps, talks about her service in World War Two. Hamilton explains why she enlisted in July 1942 and talks about going through confidential secretary training and working and housing conditions at her duty stations in Des Moines, Iowa, Daytona, Florida, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Fort Sam Houston and Fort Hood, Texas, Fort Hamilton, New York, and in Scotland, England and Paris, France. After being discharged, Hamilton says that she took advantage of the G.I. Bill and attended secretarial school for eight months in Pasadena, California. Hamilton also reminisces about her childhood and events she remembers from World War One. Hamilton is interviewed by Thelma Norris and Genevieve Cadmus.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1983-05-28
- Interviewees
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Hamilton, Hazel M.
- Interviewers
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Cadmus, Genevieve Hill, 1918-2012
Norris, Thelma
- Subjects
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Hamilton, Hazel M.
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
United States. Army
World War (1914-1918)
World War (1939-1945)
Armed Forces--Military life
Military participation--Female
Secretaries--Training of
Veterans
Women veterans
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:31:57
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 32713
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11755411
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