17 April 1999 Oral Transcript; photograph of Nancy standing with two other women in uniform Alyde De Wild and Helen Rickens; three photographs of Nancy in Europe while stationed from 1944-1945; personal account of the Air Force training and military duty overseas during the war from 1944 -1945 written by Grace Lillard titled; "This is Your Story"; military records; WAAC Tag Echo newsletter Volume 1, No. 5 dated May 5,1943 from Nacogdoches, Texas; personal correspondence; 3 newspaper article clippings; Copy of The Flyer newsletter Volume 1, No 12. from Mount Clemens, Michigan dated May 20, 1943 front page; The Flyer Newsletter Volume 1,No 21 dated August 5, 1943 front page; Selfridge Field News page with photographs of Nancy and her WAAC company dated May 13, 1943; War Department Pamphlet no 21 issued on May 16,1944 titled; "If you should be captured; these are your rights."
Nancy L. Riddle Hinchliffe (1916-2011) of Graham, North Carolina, was a teletype operator with the Army Air Force Signal Corps while serving stateside and overseas in the Women's Auxilary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1943 to 1945. Nancy L. Riddle Hinchliffe was born in Graham, North Carolina, on 26 September 1916. After graduating from high school in 1935, she attended beauty school in High Point, North Carolina. Hinchliffe enlisted in Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC) in January 1943 and went through basic training at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia. She then attended the army's business school at Nacogdoches, Texas. She was then assigned to Selfridge Field, Michigan, as a teletype operator. She was later sent to code and cryptography school at Mitchell Field, Long Island, where she became a member of the Army Air Force Signal Corps. Hinchliffe was later transferred to Langley Field in Virginia, where she was again a teletype operator. In May 1944, Hinchliffe was sent to the European Theatre of Operation. She worked as a teletype operator in Stanmore, outside of London, England, before being sent briefly to Versailles, France. She was then stationed in Vittel, France, from October 1944 through May 1945. While in Nice, France, in June 1945, Nancy Hinchliffe married Roger Hinchliffe, a technical sergeant from her company. Her final assignment in Europe was in Schwetzingen, near Heidelberg, Germany, and she was discharged in September of 1945. After the war, Hinchliffe settled in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her husband. She worked as a beautician while raising her two daughters.
