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CPL Roena Bayes Oral History Part 2
Publication date: 30 April 2024
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title:
CPL Roena Bayes Oral History Part 2
creator:
Bayes, Roena (1918 August 27 - )
subject:
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) | Women's Army Corps (WAC) | Army Air Corps
description:
Part 2 of 2. Roena Bayes was born in Farmer Township in Defiance County, Ohio on August 27, 1918. She enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942 and went to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia for basic training. She then trained to join the Army Air Corps and was stationed at Minter Air Force Base in California in 1943. She was sent to serve in Europe in 1944 and served in Watford, England; with the 8th Air Force in Luxembourg; and elsewhere around England, France, and Germany until the war ended in 1945 when she was discharged. She left the service with the rank of Corporal and had been awarded the European Theater of Operation ribbon, Good Conduct medal, WAC ribbon, and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Reborchick, Marcy
date:
2007-04-25
type:
Moving Image
format:
Mini-DV
identifier:
050.02; 2007.050
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
007003
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1943-45
rights:
Unrestricted