Item #12885 [Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Service Training of Almena L. Belyea and Her Fellow Soldiers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps During World War II]. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Almena L. Belyea.
[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Service Training of Almena L. Belyea and Her Fellow Soldiers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps During World War II].
[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Service Training of Almena L. Belyea and Her Fellow Soldiers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps During World War II].
[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Service Training of Almena L. Belyea and Her Fellow Soldiers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps During World War II].
[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Service Training of Almena L. Belyea and Her Fellow Soldiers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps During World War II].
[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Service Training of Almena L. Belyea and Her Fellow Soldiers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps During World War II].
[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Service Training of Almena L. Belyea and Her Fellow Soldiers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps During World War II].
A Woman in the WAAC During World War II

[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Service Training of Almena L. Belyea and Her Fellow Soldiers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps During World War II].

[Various locations: 1943-1946]. [58] leaves, illustrated with 114 photographs, generally two per page, tipped in on rectos. Octavo. Contemporary plain paper photograph album bound in brown textured cloth with decorative stamping on spine and front board. Minor wear. Internally quite clean. Very good plus. Item #12885

A tidy and informative collection of photographs memorializing the wartime stateside training of numerous women serving in Company 7 of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The photographs are largely individual and group portraits of the women training at various locations throughout the country, including Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia, as well as Alpine, Texas; Fort Devens in Massachusetts; Des Moines, Iowa; and Mapleton, Maine. The album is partially annotated, with manuscript captions on many of the margins or on the verso, many dated and identifying the women in the images or the location. The women identified in the captions include Corporal Kaiser, Elaine Flaherty,  Lt. Tapajina, Lt. Haggard, Private Rosalyn Caley, T-4 Ethel O'Brian, Capt. Lawson, Sgt. Boomer, Florence McClure, and Capt. Chapman, providing a valuable record of the women serving in the WAAC at this time. One group shot of WAACs at Fort Devens is captioned on the verso with the last names of all ten women, and a few other portraits are captioned the same way (White, Melin, Phillips, etc.). A handful of the images picture the women in the midst of training, including images of a retreat parade, raising the American flag, working in the barracks, and climbing a rope ladder. The album was apparently compiled by a WAAC named Almena L. Belyea according to a laid-in note from a former owner of the album. Almena L. Belyea (1902-1963) served in the WAAC as a Technician Fifth Grade during the war. Afterwards, she apparently never married and lived a quiet life in Maine, where she is buried in Presque Isle.

Price: $1,250

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