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1SG Eleanor Gowing Brown Oral History
Publication date: 26 August 2024
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title:
1SG Eleanor Gowing Brown Oral History
creator:
Brown, Eleanor H. (Gowing)
subject:
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) | Women's Army Corps (WAC)
description:
Eleanor Brown enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942 and served stateside and in Europe and Northern Africa during World War II. She was among the WACs sent to Naples, Italy, where she served as a company clerk. Brown and the other WACs lived in a convent while stationed in Naples. Her service also includes time at Fort Devens, Massachusetts; Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia; and Casablanca, Morocco. Throughout her service, she wrote letters to her parents about what happened around her. These letters include a typhus outbreak that made a city off-limits to Army personnel, seeing the opera “Madame Butterfly,” getting her mother a locket blessed by the Pope, and piano lessons from an Italian woman. She also described the conditions of the men returning from the front, and how the city had been ravaged by war. Brown was discharged in 1946 with the rank of first sergeant, and she had been awarded a 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:
Scott, Kate M.
date:
2005-02-19
type:
Moving Image
format:
Hi-8
identifier:
112; 2005.112
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
356664
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1942-46
rights:
Unrestricted