Anna Louis Henderson Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
What's in the full collection?: Photographs of The WAC Medical Detachment graduating class Company 8 of the 21st WAC Regiment, also posing by herself and with 2 patients from the Hospital where she served 1945; Handwritten photocopied essay from 2001 on working at the Finney General Hospital in Thomasville, GA, 1945; article on the "99th WAC Hospital Company", 1945.
Full biography: Anna Louis Henderson (1923-2003) served as a medical technician in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. She was assigned to the 99th WAC Hospital Company at Finney General Hospital in Thomasville, Georgia.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Army -- WAC
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Anna Louis Henderson; Anna Louis Henderson, member of the WAC Medical Corps, poses in the olive drab winter enlisted uniform and garrison cap in 1945.

: Finney General Hospital Medical Detatchment class; The WAC Medical Detachment graduating class at Finney General Hospital in Thomasville, Georgia, are photographed in formation in July 1945. The women wear the WAC garrison cap and summer service uniform without the jacket.

: WAC Company 8, 21st Regiment at Fort Oglethorpe; Company 8 of the 21st WAC Regiment stands for a formal group photo at the Third WAC Training Center at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, on 14 April 1945. Anna Louis Henderson is six rows down from the top, first on the left.

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