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Julia M. Jackson Woods scrapbook, 1942-1947

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This scrapbook was created by Julia M. Jackson Woods (1911-2000), an African American woman from Louisville, Kentucky, who enlisted in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in November 1942. The scrapbook contains greeting cards, newspaper clippings, and ephemera from Woods' service, as well as more than 20 insignia and patches collected from various units, including her own sergeant stripes. The scrapbook documents the social side of military base life - cards from USO groups and friends, marriages, dances, and other interracial interactions between otherwise segregated regiments stationed at the same bases. A few items at the end of the volume relate to Woods' postwar life in Louisville. Woods served in the all-Black 32nd Post Headquarters Company of the WAAC. She did much of her training at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, near the Mexican border; she also served stints in Des Moines, Iowa and Midland, Texas. A clipping on one of the initial pages of the scrapbook notes that Jackson was one of Louisville's first volunteers to join the WAAC. She was discharged on August 14, 1943. After the United States Congress authorized the creation of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), she enlisted in the WAC on May 1, 1944. She ultimately reached the rank of sergeant and served in the military police force. The Army discharged her on December 24, 1945. After her service, she married Thomas Harry Woods (1914-1961) and was hired as the head of the all-Black Western Kentucky Vocational Training School Department of Cosmetology in Paducah, Kentucky, by 1946.

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[Upper left: White card with a scalloped blue border around it. A pink ribbon at the top reads] TO CHEER YOU [below it a wheelbarrow of pink roses holds a sign that reads] Hope You're Feeling Better! [handwriten note] Sent to me buy P.F.C Emmitt young from Camp Stuart Ga. [Upper right: 1 French bank note worth 5 Francs] EMIS EN FRANCE SERIE DE 1944 [stamped number] 21049829 CINQ 5 FRANCS SERIE DE 1944 [Bottom Left: White and orange Australian bank note worth 10 shilings] [handwritten note] Send. by s/sqt Richard Bahhage Midland, Texas - 1944 [Bottom Left: Cut out, black and white photo of Fort Huachuca, Arizona. A uniformed solider stands to the right of a sign] MILITARY RESERVATION SECURE PASS AT GUARD HOUSE BEFORE ADMITTANCE

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TRIPLE WEDDING UNITES WAACS AND SERVICEMEN photograph of wedding no.1 photograph of wedding no.2photograph of wedding no.3 Fort Huachuca Scene Of Unique Triple Ceremony

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz., June 24 - With the approval and blessing of Colonel Edwin N. Hardy, Post Commander, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., a triple wedding in which three members of the Detachment Corps of Military Police and three members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps were united in holy matriomony.

The impressive ceremony was performed on the steps of the Post Military Police Detachment at a o'clock Saturday morning, June 5, in a triple ceremony of what promises to become an epidemic of military weddings at historic Fort Huachuca.

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S9T Stripes St Huaebuca Arizona april 2nd/ 1945 8th Service Command air Corp 15th Army 10th Airbourne 9th Army 8th Air Force

J. Fare St. Master Transportahac

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Xmas - 194 4 or 5 midland, Texas cards & received

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Christmas card with candles'Remembering you at Christmas Time' Christmas card; Carol singers Chrismas card featuring Santa Claus; If you think youre busy when Christmas is here, consider poor Santa at this time of year!

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