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Signal Corps, U S Army, Post Civilian Welfare CouncilBiblio.com

War Years At Lexington Signal Depot 1942 - 1945

Women's Army Corps; WACBiblio.com

WAC Sgt. Elizabeth Adamek Pierce of Pennsylvania photo album with 240 photographs Documenting Women's Service at Camp Zama Japan during the Korean War

1950231531950. WACKorean War Women's Army Corps photo album compiled by Sgt. Elizabeth Adamek of Cairnbrook PA ca. early to mid 1950s extensively recording enlisted women in post-1948 U.S. Army administrative operations at Camp Zama Japan during the Korean War period. Elizabeth Adamek later Elizabeth Adamek Pierce 1932-2016 served approximately twenty years in the United States Army as an administrative assistant and instructor including service in Japan and the Korean Theater during the Korean War. Adamek is shown several times in uniform with her twin sister Cpl. Cristania Adamek indicating the sisters served in the WAC around the same time period. This album documents postwar U.S. Army overseas base administration showing how clerical labor recordkeeping and office management were carried out by WAC personnel during the Korean War. Images of Hill and fellow servicewomen engaged in office work reveal women's roles in the Army's daily bureaucratic and logistical functions while stationed abroad. A comprehensive primary-source documentation of the operational role of women within permanent peacetime Army structures following the formal establishment of the Women's Army Corps in 1948. Photo archive of approximately 240 silver gelatin photographs from Camp Zama Japan and the United States circa early to mid 1950s. The album is housed in a Japanese lacquer-style postbound binding with black paper leaves containing a mixture of small snapshot prints deckle-edge photographs and larger mounted images. The visual content centers on Hill frequently shown in WAC uniform posed in front of barracks administrative buildings and landscaped areas as well as inside office environments seated at desks surrounded by stacked files paperwork and card index systems. Several images explicitly depict clerical workspaces including a servicewoman operating a typewriter beside filing drawers reinforcing the administrative function of WAC personnel. A clearly legible building sign reads "Camp Zama 8030th Army Unit APO 50" situating the album within a specific military unit structure. Additional photographs include formal military reviews with officers and dignitaries group portraits of uniformed women before display walls and social scenes in dining facilities and clubs. Off-duty life is extensively documented through images of Japanese urban streets market stalls rail platforms commercial signage shrine gateways temple architecture zoo enclosures and landscaped gardens alongside recreational scenes such as swimming roadside travel and barracks exteriors collectively illustrating both the operational and social dimensions of overseas Army life. Adamek is posed throughout the album with a romantic partner one Sgt. Kidder whose service at Camp Zama is also documented extensively. The album captures the workings of U.S. Army overseas base administration demonstrating the process by which women in the Women's Army Corps sustained military infrastructure through administrative labor. Camp Zama functioned as a major logistical and support installation during the Korean War era and the photographs provide insight into the women that maintained its operations while also recording the social networks and cultural encounters experienced by American service personnel in postwar Japan. Elizabeth Adamek Pierce's obituary in The Oklahoman indicates she was honorably discharged from the US Army in 1971 after which she relocated to Oklahoma City and worked in an administrative role with the OKC Police Department. Adamek was a member of the Civil Air Patrol the VFW Post 1335 and a volunteer at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. Light edge wear and chipping to album leaves occasional corner wear scattered fading and softness to prints and general handling wear to the binding; overall good condition. A cohesive and well-identified visual record of women's military service in the U.S. Army in East Asia. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis2 200,00 $US≈ 1 861,42 €

WAC Woman Army CorpBiblio.com

WAC Servicewomen in WWII Archive 1940

1940231951940. Women's wartime military mobilization photo archive documenting female military service across Allied wartime culture in the United States and southern France during the 1940s. Official press photographers commercial postcard publishers and private snapshot makers record women in uniform within military structures wartime publicity systems and informal social settings while the comic material makes clear that women's enlistment was also processed through satire about masculinization labor reversal and altered domestic authority. The August 22 1944 Army Radiotelephoto press photograph captioned "FRENCH WACS COME HOME" includes helmeted French women carrying rifles and duffel bags as they debark from landing craft "US 38" on the Riviera to join the liberation of their homeland placing women's military service directly within Allied invasion reporting and wartime news transmission. Photo archive of 13 silver gelatin and colored real photo postcards ranging from 10 x 8 inch press photos to smaller 3 x 2.5 inches vernacular photos United States and southern France circa 1940s. The grouping joins official press photography commercially printed comic postcards and private snapshots: women serving in uniform within military structures news agencies translating that service into public wartime narrative and vernacular photographs framing servicewomen through friendship memory and off-duty self-presentation. One large press photograph includes a WAC marching unit in tight alignment behind a guidon for a unit attached to a Naval Operating Air Station the elevated viewpoint emphasizing drill uniformity and command structure rather than individual identity. The Radiotelephoto print retains its typed verso caption identifying French WACs coming ashore in southern France. Four color comic postcards published by Beals in Des Moines turn women's enlistment into wartime humor through slogans including "WE'RE GIVING 'EM A BIG WAAC . . . " "I'M BRINGING HOME THE BACON!" "I'M GETTING A BIG BANG OUT OF THIS ARMY LIFE" and "MY HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED." The most pointed of these "I'M BRINGING HOME THE BACON!" has a uniformed woman dragging a defeated male figure on a rope recasting military service as a comic transfer of masculine power and economic authority to women. "MY HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED" extends that logic by imagining a man in an apron cooking and sweeping at home making domestic reversal itself the joke. The remaining cards similarly convert women's service into exaggerated spectacle through a rolling-pin attack on a caricatured Axis figure and a smiling servicewoman posed between oversized cannons. Seven small vernacular snapshots shift to individualized presence: one is signed "Love Sherry" two versos identify "Hazel" one verso reads "Golden Gate Park" and the images include women in uniform seated on an urban balustrade standing along city streets posed in landscaped parks visiting a pagoda-like garden site and appearing together outdoors in a paired portrait. Women's military service during World War II expanded through the WAAC WAC and related Allied formations while press agencies commercial print culture and snapshot photography assigned that service different public meanings; this archive preserves those overlapping channels in a single grouping. The postcards register wartime unease and fascination around women entering socially masculine roles turning military participation into jokes about strength breadwinning authority and domestic displacement. Minor corner and edge wear to the larger photographs one crease and caption wear to the Radiotelephoto print light rubbing and handling wear to the postcards and general wear curling and minor soiling to the vernacular snapshots; overall very good condition. The grouping preserves women's wartime military presence as it moved between official documentation commercial gender satire and private snapshot culture. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis885,00 $US≈ 748,80 €

WAC Women's Army Corps AmbulanceBiblio.com

W.W.II Women's Army Corps Ambulance Driver and Training Photo Archive 1940s

1945225281945. Women History World War II WWII Women's Army Corps photo archive documenting women's military service during World War II and the expansion of women's logistical and technical roles within the United States Army. The photographs record daily activity surrounding Women's Army Corps personnel including ambulance operation vehicle maintenance military training environments and informal moments of rest and recreation. Established in 1943 Women's Army Corps enabled women to enter the Army in noncombat roles that were essential to wartime mobilization including clerical work communications mechanics and medical transport. The images document this institutional transformation through scenes of uniformed women working with military vehicles operating ambulances and participating in the broader infrastructure of wartime military camps. One photograph shows a WAC standing in full service uniform before a low administrative building while others depict women outdoors in wooded settings during moments of leisure illustrating both the disciplined and personal dimensions of wartime service. Archive of 20 gelatin photographs created during the 1940s depicting Women's Army Corps personnel military vehicles and associated Army training activities. Photographs measure approximately 3.5 x 5 inches. The photographs show WAC members in both uniform and off duty settings including outdoor portraits and camp scenes. Several images focus on military ambulances and transport vehicles bearing visible Army markings such as "U.S. ARMY 432621" and "AMB-34." Verso inscriptions provide firsthand commentary on military duties and equipment including one caption reading "This is my new AMBULANCE hope you like it sis. safe & OK" and another written beside an ambulance photograph noting "good old Baker 5 kept me from walking." Operational scenes include soldiers crouched behind sandbags with a handwritten note identifying personnel as "Eselinger Conrad Palmer Carvey Boss." Other photographs document the broader military environment surrounding WAC activity including a drill or parade ground and a large motor pool with rows of Army trucks one marked "U.S. Army 008909" positioned in front of a multi story barracks. Additional annotated images identify fellow servicemen and technical details of equipment including "Hines Gallop and myself. Gallop is a jeep driver from North Carolina" and another describing "my radio on right fender" while one photograph is labeled simply "motor pool." Women's Army Corps personnel served throughout the United States and overseas during World War II performing essential logistical and administrative work that supported Allied military operations. Ambulance drivers such as the woman referenced in the captions transported wounded soldiers during training exercises and operational deployments and were often responsible for maintaining their own vehicles in field conditions. WAC members later served across European theaters including England France and Italy after the Allied landings in 1944 contributing to the wartime medical evacuation system that moved casualties from combat zones to field hospitals and rear medical facilities. Light edge wear mild surface handling and faint silvering to some prints; overall very good condition. These photographs document both the operational infrastructure of wartime motor transport and the presence of women within that system illustrating how the mobilization of female personnel expanded the technical and logistical capacities of the U.S. Army during the global conflict. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis1 850,00 $US≈ 1 565,29 €

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