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SGT Alice Ewing Phillips Oral History
Publication date: 13 August 2024
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title:
SGT Alice Ewing Phillips Oral History
creator:
Phillips, Alice Evamae (Ewing) (1917 June 10 - )
subject:
Women's Army Corps (WAC)
description:
Alice Evamae Phillips (formerly Ewing) was born on June 10, 1917 in St. Louis, Missouri. She enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps in September 1944 because her brother had already been sent overseas, and because she wanted to go to school but couldn’t afford it otherwise. She had completed some nurse’s training at St. Mary’s Infirmary in St. Louis but hadn’t finished, so when she joined she was hoping to work as a lab technician. She went to Fort Des Moines, Iowa for basic training, then was assigned to Amarillo, Texas where she worked as a medical technician, often as a lab assistant. Her final station was at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio, which she enjoyed in part because there were many more black soldiers there. She left the service in May 1947 after getting an offer to work in a lab at the Homer G. Phillips Coty Hospital number 2 in St. Louis. She worked at a couple other hospitals, then in a Kirkwood hospital for 28 years before retiring for the first time. She quickly felt like she wanted something to do and worked part time teaching lab work until she retired a second time. When she left the service Phillips had reached the rank of sergeant. A transcript of this interview is available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Vernau, Victoria
date:
2007-02-01
type:
Audio
format:
CD
identifier:
739; 2007.739
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
146900
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1944-47
rights:
Unrestricted