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Women's Army Corps (WAC) Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Visits with WACs in Frankfurt, Germany

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (second from left) is sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner in the mess hall with members of the WAC Detachment in Frankfurt, Germany. Also present are Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Member of the National Civilian Advisory Committee on the WACs (far right, back to camera) and Major Ruby E. Herman, Deputy WAC Staff Director for the European theater (second from right, back to camera). All others are unidentified.

Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the Women's Army Corps (WAC)

From left to right, Mrs. Betsy Talbot Blackwell, Editor-in-Chief of "Mademoiselle", Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret), the second director of the WAC (1945-1947); Lieutenant Colonel Norma M. Flachsland, WAC Staff Advisor for the First Army at Fort Jay, Major General Robert H. Booth, Chief of Staff, First United States Army; Mrs. Webster Todd, and Mrs. Robert H. Booth. Lieutenant Colonel Flachsland and Major General Booth are cutting into a cake at a celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Women's Army Corps. Mrs. Blackwell and Mrs.