U.S. Army Signal Corps

WAC Technician (T/5) Dorothy E. Hoefler of Buffalo, New York, examines a shell torn tree thought to be dead and is surprised to find it blooming. Hoefler was stationed in the Sparanise area, Italy with the WAC 6669th Headquarters Platoon supporting the Fifth Army.

WAC Technician (T/5) Marian F. Wilderman of Tacoma, Washington is pictured in front of the sign at the entrance to Fifth Army Headquarters. Wilderman was assigned to the 6669th WAC Headquarters Platoon as a typist in the Quartermaster's office. At the time of this photograph she was stationed somewhere in the Sparanise area, Italy.

WAC Technician (T/5) Eleanor V. Spinola of Hilo, Hawaii, calculates the distance from Hilo, Hawaii to where she is located in the San Marco area of Italy. At the time of the photograph Spinola was assigned to the WAC 6669th Headquarters Platoon supporting the Fifth Army.

First Sergeant Arthur F. Richter (left) of Company D, 756 Tank Battalion from Kearney, Nebraska is shown here with his cousin, WAC Technician (T/5) Katherine G. Richter (right) of the 6669th WAC Headquarters Platoon. They are pictured during a brief reunion somewhere in the San Marco area, Italy.

WAC Private First Class Elizabeth G. Bush of Bingham Canyon, Utah, is operating a switchboard while serving as a member of the 6669th WAC Headquarters Platoon with the Fifth Army in the Sparanise Area, Italy. Other WACs in the background are unidentified.

Women's Army Corps Technician (T/4) Nellie I. Garrett, of Quincy, Illinois, is working in the WAC Orderly Room, working with WAC records, while stationed with the 6669th WAC Headquarters platoon in the San Marco Area, Italy.

WAC Private First Class Zenaida Johnson, originally from New York, New York, works as a switchboard operator for the Fifth Army while stationed in the San Marco Area, Italy. She is a member of the 6669th WAC Headquarters platoon.

WAC Technician (T/5) Geraldine Horne, from Lucesadle, Mississippi, is working in her role as secretary to Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, Commanding General of the Fifth Army. Horne is stationed in Italy with the 6669th WAC Headquarters Platoon, stationed in the Sparanise Area, Italy.

WAC Technician (T/5) Norma R. Reick of Toledo, Ohio, works as a stenographer supporting the Fifth Army. Reick was stationed with the WAC 6669th Headquarters Platoon in the San Marco Area, Italy.

WAC Technician (T/5) Mary F. Robertson of Brawley, California, works as a typist at the 5th Army Headquarters. After hours, she acts in the comedy "Out of the Frying Pan" presented by Fifth Army Special Service. (She is shown reading a program of same). She is a member of the 6669th WAC platoon, stationed in the Sparanise Area, Italy.