Dinners and dining

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (center at head table) enjoys a meal with a group of WAC soldiers at an unidentified location. All others pictured are unidentified.

From left to right, entertainer Kay Kyser, Mrs. J. S. Pierce and Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret) are chatting at the Homecoming Day dinner held at the Ricks Hotel in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Man in the background is unidentified.

Entertainer Kay Kyser (seated, second from left) and retired Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (seated, third from left) converse at the Homecoming Day celebration in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Others are unidentified.

From left to right, Mrs. Kay Kyser, Kay Kyser, and retired Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie participate in the Homecoming Day celebration at the Ricks Hotel in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Others in the background are unidentified.

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.

Scene of the Mess Hall in Frankfurt, Germany, where WACs stationed there shared Thanksgiving Dinner with thirty German orphans. All are unidentified.

Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen McClure (second from right), European Theatre Staff Director for the Women's Army Corps (WACs), entertains some of the thirty German orphans that the WACs of the Frankfurt, Germany detachment hosted for Thanksgiving dinner in their mess hall. All others are unidentified.

Women's Army Corps (WAC) Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (center) shares a Thanksgiving dinner with two unidentified German orphans during her visit to Frankfurt, Germany while on a tour of WAC European facilities. Others in the background are unidentified.

Women's Army Corps (WAC) Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (center) shares a Thanksgiving dinner with two unidentified German orphans during her visit to Frankfurt, Germany while on a tour of WAC European facilities. Others in the background are unidentified.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (third from the left) is chatting with a group of unidentified WACs at the Tusa WAC facility in Heidelberg, Germany, during her tour of WAC facilities with the United States Third Army in Europe.