Col. Oveta Culp Hobby poses with WACs and WAAFs in Algiers, Algeria, 1944
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Photograph. Col. Oveta Culp Hobby poses with WACs and WAAFs. Official caption on reverse: "Sig. Corps radio Photo-1-19-44 / Algiers. High rnaking [sic] Allied women officers meet at a reception given in honor of Col. Olveta [sic] Culp Hobby, (C/O American WAC's). L-R: Maj. Westray Battle Boyce, Staff Theater Director (WAC); Flight officer Mary Herbert (WAAFS); Col. Olveta [sic] Culp Hobby c/o of the WAC's; Mme Dollie Lentz (French); Maj. Betty Bandel, air WAC Liason [sic] officer; flight officer Pat Culverwell (WAAFs)." Algiers, Algeria. 19 January 1944
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From the service of Brigadier General Terence John Tully, a West Point graduate, Signal Officer during the African landings, Chief Signal Officer, Allied Force Headquarters Africa/Italy for all Mediterranean operations. Tully served with the Signal Corps in Italy and North Africa documenting the 5th Army specifically. Later he was Commander of Camp Crowder, Missouri.
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Alger
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36.833
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3.000
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Women--Military service--Algeria
Receptions--Algeria