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TECH4 Yolanda Adkins Oral History
Publication date: 26 August 2024
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title:
TECH4 Yolanda Adkins Oral History
creator:
Adkins, Yolanda (Aleuri) (1919 January 10 - )
subject:
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) | Women's Army Corps (WAC)
description:
Yolanda Adkins (formerly Aleuri) was born on January 10, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. She joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in October 1942 and continued to serve through the transition from the WAAC to the Women’s Army Corps. She served in the Mediterranean as a part of the 5th Army under General Clark. She left the service in 1945 with the rank Tech 4, and in her time in the Army she was awarded two Bronze Service Stars, a Good Conduct Medal, Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 2 bronze stars, and New York Conspicuous Service Cross Medal. In 1993, her memoir title Skirt Patrol: Women’s Army Corps, Army of the United States was published by Vantage Press. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Pfeiffer, Pamela
date:
2006-07-19
type:
Moving Image
format:
DVD-R
identifier:
1093.02; 2007.1093
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
002755
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1942-45
rights:
Unrestricted