Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg
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Ann Kaplowitz poses in front of her quarters in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1945. She wears the WAC off-duty olive-drab dress and garrison cap, and holds a cigarette. The front of the photo reads "To 'Cooky' Love 'Doggie.'" The back reads "in front of Khalamity Kottage, Asheville, N.C. My army home."
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg and WAC friend
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg (on left) and a fellow WAC (Dinny?) pose on the steps of Barrack 12 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in 1945. Both women wear the WAC olive-drab wool double breasted overcoat and matching garrison cap. The back of the photo reads, "Aren't we pretty? Don't answer that!"
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg hanging laundry
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg poses in her brown and white seersucker exercise uniform while hanging laundry on the back porch of her quarters in Asheville, North Carolina, nicknamed "khalamity kottage," on 10 July 1945. The back of the photo reads, "Glamorous, even when I'm washing clothes. The window is my bedroom."
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg with mop
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg leans against a mop on the porch of Barracks 12 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in March 1945, wearing her work uniform and Daisy Mae fatigue cap. The back of the photo reads, "Don't I look like an eager beaver?"
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End of basic training party
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WAC Company 11 21st regiment celebrates their completion of basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in March 1945 with a party featuring skits.
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Oral history interview with Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg
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Documents Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg's early life in Brooklyn, New York; her military service during World War II; and her family and personal life after the war. Goldberg discusses various aspects of her military service, including her family's reaction to her enlistment; classes and living conditions during basic training at Fort Oglethorpe; her classified position and the secure area in which she worked in the Army Airways Communication System office in Asheville, NC; social activities, especially life in Asheville; and her courtship with and engagement to Abe Goldberg. Goldberg speaks frequently about her Jewish faith, relating several incidents of religious discrimination. " Goldberg also discusses her personal life at length, commenting on her Russian family history and her youth in Brooklyn; not wanting her sons to serve in the Vietnam War; women's issues and feminism; her brief post-war education, her job at Fieldston School in the Bronx working famous people's children, and being involved in veterans organizations.
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WAC Company 11, 21st Regiment
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Formal photo of WAC basic training Company 11, 21st Regiment at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, taken on 23 February 1945. The company is lead by 1st Lt. WAC Commander Edith K. Sutton. The WAC on the far right in the front row holds a cat on a leash.
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WACs at mail call
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WACs Shirley Kilborn, Jean McNeil, Dorothy Keerz, and Daisy Kien read letters shortly after mail call at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in March 1945.
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WACs outside Barrack 12 at Fort Oglethorpe, G.A.
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Five WACs gather on the steps of Barracks 12 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, during their basic training in March 1945. The WACs are wearing the olive-drab winter dress uniform and garrison cap, and one one carries a military issue handbag. Text on the back of the photo reads, "Just a scene outside the barracks at staging. Lovely!"
