Adeline Sears LaPlante Collection
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante
- Adeline Sears LaPlante wearing the WAC[Women's Army Corps] winter service uniform, with an Army Air Force patch on the sleeve and Air Force branch pins on the labels. Unidentifiable insignia on the shoulders. May 6, 1944.
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante
- Adeline Sears LaPlante wearing the WAACs (Women's Auxiliary Army Corps) summer uniform, October 18, 1942, with salute-bars on shoulders, indicating LaPlante is commissioned. Caption on back of photograph:"Oh deu golden bars! October 18, 1942"
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante WAC training
- Adeline Sears LaPlante standing in front of sign for the Second Division WAC[Women's Army Corps] T.C.[training command] Cantonment Area, in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante at WAAC recruitment office, North Carolina
- Caption on back of photograph:"Mr. Riggs, navy recruiter, and I[Adeline Sears LaPlante], in Hickory[N.C.]" posing in front of WAAC[Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] recruitment advertisement.
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante commisioning pinning ceremony
- Adeline Sears LaPlante, with unnamed individual, pinning the salute-bars on uniform.
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante commission ceremony
- Photograph of WAACs[Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] at Adeline Sears LaPlante commission ceremony.
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante first payday
- Caption on back of photograph:"Adeline Sears LaPlante receives her very first paycheck, forty-one dollars, on army payday, September 30."
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante posing with WAAC recruitment poster, North Carolina
- Adeline Sears LaPlante, wearing WAACs[Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] wool overcoat for officers with the winter cap with the officers WAAC eagle insignia, posing next to a WAACs recruitment poster.
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante profile
- Adeline Sears LaPlante as a WAACs[Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] company officer, at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, October 18, 1942.
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante receives commission ceremony
- Adeline Sears LaPlante outdoor ceremony where LaPlante receives commission. Caption on back of photograph: O.C.[officer candidate] Sears becomes a third officer; second louie[lieutenant] is the preferred title. Oct. 17, 1942."
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante recruitment trip
- Caption on back of photograph:"Loot[lieutenant] Sears in the Recon with McLarry holding banner circuit trip, June '43"
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante with unnamed individual
- Adeline Sears LaPlante with unnamed individual at commission ceremony.
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- Adeline Sears LaPlante, Boomtown, Fort Des Moines, Iowa
- Adeline Sears LaPlante in Boomtown, Fort Des Moines, Iowa, wearing the WAACs[Women's Auxiliary Army Corps] officers' wool overcoat. Caption for photograph:"Twelfth co.[company] third regt.[regiment]"
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- Boomtown Fort Des Moines
- Caption on back of the photograph:"Agnes Tuiemau and Lois Wilen in front of the home of two WAACs auxiliaries, Boomtown Fort Des Moines, Iowa, on September 26, 1942. The photograph was taken on a Sunday walk."
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- Coworkers on recruitment trip
- Caption on back of photograph:"McLarry, Dykstra, dismounted, June '43"
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- Daytona Beach
- Photograph of housing in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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- Parade grounds, Fort Des Moines
- Caption on back of photograph:"Parade grounds, Fort Des Moines" Possibly WAACs (Women's Auxiliary Army Corps) walking across the parade grounds at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
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- Recruitment trip
- Caption on back of photograph:"Dykstra, McLarry, June '43, cruit trip"
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- Store window display, North Carolina
- A store window display, advertising the WAACs[Women's Auxiliary Army Corps].
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- The barracks, Fort Des Moines
- Caption on back of photograph reads "The Barracks at Fort Des Moines, Iowa."
