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Miller, Grace Porter,--1921- , United States.--Army.--Women's Army Corps--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, Women soldiers--United States--Biography.
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1999
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D769.39.M55 1999eb
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940.54/1273
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Miller, Grace Porter,--1921- , United States.--Army.--Women's Army Corps--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, Women soldiers--United States--Biography.
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Call of Duty
A Montana Girl in World War II
Grace Porter Miller
Foreword by LINDA GRANT DE PAUW
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Copyright 1999 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 99 01 03 05 07 08 06 04 02 00 1 3 5 4 2
Designer: Melanie O'Quinn Samaha Typeface: Goudy Printer and binder: Edwards Brothers, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Miller, Grace Porter, 1921 Call of duty : a Montana girl in World War II / Grace Porter Miller ; foreword by Linda Grant De Pauw. p. cm. ISBN 0-8071-2343-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Miller, Grace Porter, 1921 . 2. United States. Army. Women's Army CorpsBiography. 3. World War, 19391945 Participation, Female. 4. World War, 19391945Personal narratives, American. 5. Women soldiersUnited StatesBiography. I. Title D769.39.M55 1998 940.54'1273dc21 98-44086 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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To my four children, who pushed me and cheered me on to write about my WAC days, especially my son, David Miller, Ph.D. in English, who has spent many hours editing and word-processing this book
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Contents
Foreword
by Linda Grant De Pauw
xi
Preface
xvii
Acknowledgments
xix
1. "You're in the Army Now!"
1
2. England
47
3. Wartime Europe
104
4. Germany
139
Postscript: After the War Was Over
147
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Illustrations
following page 93
The author during WAC basic training
Verna Newman, Helen Fabianek, and the author, Bushey, Herts
The author at Kew Gardens
WAC members of code room staff, Eighth Air Force HQ, Bushey
Bomb damage at Le Havre
WAC billet house in Charleroi, Belgium
Market Day in Charleroi
Ninth Air Force HQ, Charleroi
Ray, Don, and Casey
Boating on Lake Loverval
Un pissoir
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Russian and Polish former POWs
Victoire-Paix Day, Charleroi
WACs in Victoire-Paix Day parade
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Foreword
Linda Grant De Pauw
Women have always been involved in war, but when war songs were sung or history books were written, women disappeared from the record. They have not always gone quietly into oblivion. Yet even when they strove to preserve their own military history, women's narratives were ignored. Few military historians mentioned women except to make a joke of them. Books like Grace Porter Miller's Call of Duty: A Montana Girl in World War II give us reason to hope that this will not happen to the women who served in World War II.
After the Civil War and World War I, American women who participated in those wars produced a flood of memoirs. Most were never published or were published privately in limited editions; few found places on the shelves of reference libraries. That a respected academic publisher, Louisiana State University Press, is publishing Miller's memoir signals that writing of this kind is a legitimate part of history. In recent years a number of other memoirs by women veterans of World War II have been similarly legitimatized by university presses and mainstream publishers. Even now, however, most such memoirs bear the imprint of small presses or remain unpublished, put aside with family papers and unknown or unavailable to the scholars who might otherwise make use of them.
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