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TECH5 Helen L. Connelly Oral History
Publication date: 30 April 2024
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title:
TECH5 Helen L. Connelly Oral History
creator:
Connelly, Helen (Kahl) 1918 December 23 - )
subject:
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) | Women's Army Corps (WAC)
description:
Helen Connelly was born in Hagerstown, Maryland on December 23, 1918. She enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 and went to basic training in Daytona Beach, Florida. After completing basic training and Administrative School, she was sent to Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. It was close enough to a train station for men to be brought in quickly from nearby ships. She did administrative work in hospitals for a while, but she asked for a transfer because she couldn’t handle working in hospitals any longer. Along with endless paperwork, she and other women would comfort the men at the hospital, go to dances, and simply go on walks together. She hopes they brought those wounded men lots of comfort. After transferring, she was stationed at Fort Lee. While there, she was up for a promotion or could elect to go overseas, so she chose to ship off to Paris, France where she worked at a communications center with Code and Signal. While stationed there, Connelly saw both General De Gaulle and General Eisenhower. She was discharged in 1945 with the rank of Tech5, and for her service was rewarded the Army Good Conduct Medal, Women’s Army Corps Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Knaff, Donna
date:
2007-11-01
type:
Moving Image
format:
Mini-DV
identifier:
1058; 2007.1058
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
018935
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1942-45
rights:
Restricted