Audrey Brewington Knight Oral History

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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.
Where can I find more information?: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/1113
What's in the full collection?: 5 February 2009 oral history transcript; copies of photographs.
Full biography: Audrey Brewington Knight (1920-2011), of Mathews, North Carolina, served as an Air WAC in United States Women's Army Corps from 1943-1945. She was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and Mather Army Air Support Facility in Sacramento, California.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Army -- WAC
Army -- AAF
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

: WAC Company at Ft. Oglethorpe; Official photograph of Company 2, 21 Regiment 4443 S.C.U taken at Third WAC Training Center ay Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, on 5 February 1944. The WACs wear olive drab winter service uniforms, Hobby hats, leather gloves, and low oxfords. Individuals identified legibly on the back of the photo include include: (first row) Col. Richie, Col. Sidell, Sgt. Stone, Lt. Beam, Eleanor Spittall, Sgt. Garrison, Sgt. Tuck, Elizabeth Carr, and Laura Hickman; (other rows) Bessie Cochran, Rose Bishop; Pat Connely, Edith Peyton, Jewell Golden, Clyde Carrell, Dara Botis, Louise J. Danes, Alice R. Grossman, Marylou Knight, Margaret L. Winslow, Joan W. Corns, Cora Huntington, Trixie Dodd, Ruby Baken, E. Findley, Violet Hargrove, Alice Allen, Berthene Busby, Dorothy H. Crowder, Lillian Appleton, Bertha Jones, Clara Britton, Mary A. Clark, Mildred Cruse, Ruth Calhoun, Kay Kaufman, Mary Wilson, Elsie Bailey, Mae Guirkin, and Lillian Bort. Audrey Brewington Knight is in the eighth row from the front, third person from the left.

: WAC barracks at Ft. Oglethorpe; WAC quarters prepared for inspection at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, are pictured, circa 1944. Neatly made bunk beds, shoes lined up, and hanging clothes can be seen.

: WACs in gas masks; Four WACs stand outside a building, wearing gas masks and WAC two-piece work suits at Mather Army Support Facility in Sacramento, California, circa 1944.

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