On 30 May 1945, four planes left the Air Transport Command at Accra on the Gold Coast of Africa transferring the remaining members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) previously of Squadron D, 1202d Army Air Forces (AAF) Base Unit (BU) to new assignments in England. The third plane never landed at the intended meeting spot, Roberts Army Air Field in Liberia. That plane was carrying 18 WACs and 3...
By the end of 1944, with the D-Day landings complete and the hard-fought Battle of the Bulge underway, the Army faced another daunting challenge: mail warehouses in Europe overflowed with mountains of undelivered letters and packages. A shortage of postal workers meant seven million Americans on the continent were feeling disconnected from their loved ones at home. In response, a Women's Army...