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100 1 $aKochendoerfer, Violet A.,$d1912-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93105916
245 10 $aOne woman's World War II /$cViolet A. Kochendoerfer.
260 $aLexington, Ky. :$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $a211 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
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520 $aMemoirs by sailors, soldiers, and pilots who fought in World War II abound, but here is a rarity: a personal account by a woman who served in both the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the American Red Cross during the war and occupation.
520 8 $aThe Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was established in 1942, allowing American women for the first time to serve, in supporting roles, in the military. The following year, Violet A. Kochendoerfer, an independent and adventurous young Minnesota woman, joined the WAACs.
520 8 $aAlways alert to new opportunities, she soon left for a job with the American Red Cross and saw much of World War II in the European Theater of Operations as she served as director of service clubs attached to military units in Britain, France, and Germany.
520 8 $aKochendoerfer tells of enduring buzz bombs in London as her 315th Troop Carrier Group took part in D-Day operations; of providing service clubs for the 82nd Airborne Division as it forced the last bridgehead of the war; of witnessing the final surrender of the main German Army and the liberation of a concentration camp; and of meeting and celebrating with the Russians after the Germans surrendered.
520 8 $aHer story, some of it told through letters she wrote home, provides a woman's unique perspective on historic events usually recounted only by men.
600 10 $aKochendoerfer, Violet A.,$d1912-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93105916
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113356
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bWomen's Army Auxiliary Corps$vBiography.
610 20 $aAmerican National Red Cross$vBiography.
740 0 $aOne woman's World War 2.
740 0 $aOne woman's World War Two.
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852 00 $bbar,stor$hD811.5$i.K9544 1994