Thanksgiving Day

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.

An unidentified WAC poses with an unidentified German orphan while another unidentified WAC takes their picture. The WACs hosted thirty German orphans at Thanksgiving Day dinner at their mess hall in Frankfurt, Germany.

The WACs in Frankfurt, Germany, entertained thirty German orphans for Thanksgiving dinner. Here the children are being loaded into United States Army trucks to be transported to the WAC mess hall while photographers take lots of pictures. All 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.

Dining room of the Little White House in Key West, Florida, decorated for Thanksgiving. President Harry S. Truman, his family and members of his White House staff celebrated Thanksgiving in Key West during his vacation there.