Dorothy "Dottie" Farrington Gribble of High Point, North Carolina, served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps from 1943 to 1945.
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Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
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February 1999 oral history transcript; portrait photograph of Ethel LeBlanc Palma in uniform taken in Sydney, Australia on May 1944; photograph of Ethel LeBlanc Palma at Allied Officers Club in Port Moresby, New Gunea 1944; Ethel LeBlanc Palma with her WAAC graduating class on July 14, 1943 in Ft. Des Moines; Iowa; photograph of Ethel LeBlanc Palma in her wedding dress married at Lake Charles Air Base, LA on Dec. 20,1945; First WAACs photograph, 1943; photograph of her friends and co-workers in New Guinea; photograph of Ethel seated in center with lei surrounded by her Filipino employees on May 2,1945; photograph of Ethel on ship leaving Manila; photograph of Ethel on a ship headed home after the war U.S.S. Evangeline on September 1945; photograph of Ethel in New Guinea in 1944; photograph of Ethel wearing sunglasses while lounging off shore in New Guinea with officers; photograph of Ethel with other women and officers in New York; photograph of Ethel on May 2,1999; Invitation to Dinner Dance at "Hill Top" Officer's Club in honor of the WAC's arrival in New Guinea, July 11, 1944; Office memorandum by the Office of the Base Censor; Lt. Ethel LeBlanc receiving and dispatch section on August 31, 1944; Drawing of a woman in her uniform; Clippings; Military Record and Report of Separation Certificate of Service, September 2, 1945; Women Veterans Historical Project questions with handwritten answers; News Release of "Women's Army Auxilary Corps Service to be Considered Active Military Service" on April 2, 1980; WAAC parody song sheets.
Dorothy "Dottie" Farrington Gribble of High Point, North Carolina, served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943 to 1945, and then had a long career in sales. Dorothy "Dottie" Farrington Gribble was born in High Point, North Carolina. After graduating from Colfax High School in 1936, she worked for the Mojud (Beringer) Hosiery Mill in Greensboro.Gribble enlisted in the WAAC in early 1943 and attended basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. She did additional training at Russellville, Arkansas, before being assigned to the 89th Headquarters, Air Force, at Bergstrom Field in Austin, Texas. There she served in a personnel office doing administrative work for a year. She left the WAC following her marriage to Bill Gribble, who was also stationed at Bergstrom, in June 1944. Following Bill Gribble's discharge several years later, the Gribbles returned to Greensboro, where Dottie took a cosmetology course and started a beauty shop. She also worked in telephone sales for Sears. Following her husband's death in 1963, Gribble went to work for Berry Water Gardens in nearby Kernersville for twelve years. She then worked in the telephone sales department of J.C. Penney's department store before returning to Sears telephone sales and contracts. Dorothy Gribble died on 12 June 2007.
Women's History Military
Army -- WAC Army -- AAF
World War II era (1940-1946)
World War, 1939-1945 United States. Army--Women
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