Bernice Moran Miller Collection
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Bernice Moran Miller in front of sign
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Bernice Moran Miller, in Hobby hat and overcoat, stands beside a sign reading "No Males Allowed" on a building at Lowry Field in Colorado, Spring 1943.
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Bernice Moran Miller in overcoat
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Bernice Moran Miller wearing WAAC enlisted olive drab overcoat and Hobby hat outside facility in Des Moines, Iowa, in late 1942.
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Bernice Moran Miller outside WAC facility
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Bernice Moran Miller stands outside the brick, arched entrance to the home used by the WAC in Dayton, Ohio, wearing enlisted off-duty dress and matching garrison cap, circa 1944.
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Bernice Moran Miller shoveling coal
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Bernice Moran Miller shovels coal at Felts Field, Washington, in 1943, wearing herringbone twill one-piece coveralls and fatigue hat. Back of photo reads "For Aunt Alma, Spokane, Wash. 1943"
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Bernice Moran Miller with camera
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Portrait of Bernice Moran Miller posing with a camera, probably taken while she was at photography school at Lowry Field, Colorado, in 1943. Miller is wearing the WAC enlisted olive drab winter uniform and olive drab garrison cap.
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Oral history interview with Bernice Moran Miller
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Miller primarily discusses her military service, especially as a member of the 2nd Mapping Squadron " Miller details caring for her invalid mother as a child; difficulty of finding a job during the Depression; listening to speeches from Europe in the early 1930s; boarding with a woman whose son she later married; and her parents' deaths. " Topics related to World War II include trying to join the WAAC as an officer, but being denied; a cold winter during basic training; advantages of being older than most recruits; men enlisting in the WAAC; failing a "dot and dash" test; being respected and harassed by different soldiers; traveling with soldiers and sailors and competition between the services; mapping the United States for defensive reasons; planes outfitted with cameras; a civilian party in Colorado Springs; WAC friends, including Elsie Ribiero; a commanding officer who didn't believe women should outrank men; being a corporal for only one day before being made a sergeant; working with Germans to analyze photographs of German factories; advantages of her military service; showing her slip to a sailor; hiding civilian clothes during inspections; her opinion of women in combat positions; and World War II atrocities. Other topics include her post-war teaching career and her extensive travels.
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Two WACs play in sand
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WACs Bernice Moran Miller and Elsie Ribiero play in the sand at Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, in 1943. Behind them, mattresses are draped over a wooden fence.
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WAC parade on V-J Day
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Panoramic view of WACs in formation on V-J Day, probably at Wright-Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio, on August 15, 1945.
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WAC unit at Lowry Field,1943.
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Group photo of a WAC unit, probably photography school graduates, with male commander at Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado, in 1943. Bernice Moran Miller is in the top row, last on the right.
