An Army in Skirts.An Army in Skirts Frances DeBra Brown Indiana Historical Society The Indiana Historical Society is one of the nation's oldest and largest historical societies and describes itself as "Indiana’s storyteller". The Indiana Historical Society is located at 450 West Ohio St. Indianapolis, IN 46202. Press 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana “Indianapolis” redirects here. For other uses, see Indianapolis (disambiguation). Indianapolis (IPA: [ˌɪndiəˈnæpəlɪs]) is the capital city of the U.S. 46202-3269 9780871952646, $27.95 www.indianahistory.org An Army in Skirts: The World War II Letters of Frances Debra collects the letters Frances DeBra Brown sent to her family, while she served in the Women's Army Corps Women's Army Corps: see WAC. Women's Army Corps (WAC) U.S. Army unit. It was established (as the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps) by Congress to enlist women for auxiliary noncombat duty in World War II. Its first head was Oveta C. Hobby. in World War II as a draftsman at American headquarters in London and Paris. Chronicling her WW II service from her training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia Fort Oglethorpe is a city in Catoosa County and Walker County, Georgia, United States. The population was 6,940 at the 2000 census – 6,755 of the city's 6,940 residents (97.3%) lived in Catoosa County and 185 (2.7%) in Walker County. to her assignment at an army air field in Florida to surviving buzz bomb and V-2 rocket For other uses, see V2. The V-2 Rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2) was the first ballistic missile and first man-made object to achieve suborbital spaceflight,[6] the progenitor of all modern rockets and a direct precursor of the Saturn V moon rocket. attacks in London and witnessing the devastation of Paris a scant two weeks after the city's liberation, An Army in Skirts is the candid testimony of a woman's perspective--thoughtfully discussing the connections Brown made with individual people and the simple day-to-day matters of survival as well as larger issues of war and peace. Highly recommended. |
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