Paula Silverman Isenberg Oral History

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The February 2011 oral history transcript.

Paula Silverman Isenberg (1912-2011), of Brooklyn, New York, served as an "Air Wac" in the Women's Army Corps from 1943-1945. Paula Isenberg was born in 1912 in Brooklyn, New York. She was raised in the Brooklyn area and attended Brooklyn College. Isenberg joined the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943 and was sent to Massachusetts for basic training. She was attached to the Army Air Forces ("Air WACs" Her first duty assignment was in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a reporter. She was then sent to Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base for overseas training, and then to Hawaii, where she spent fifteen months. Next, she was sent to the San Francisco area as a court reporter, where she was for Victory in Japan (VJ) Day. She received her discharge in November of 1945." Isenberg then returned home to New York and did some traveling. The United States army requested her services as a court reporter in Korea, which she declined, and then the same in Germany, which she accepted, reporting on American war crimes trials and the trials at Nuremberg. She died in Asheville, North Carolina on 10 November, 2011.

Women's History
Military

Army -- WAC
Army -- AAF

World War II era (1940-1946)

World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women

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