Women

Members of the British and United States Army and Navy personnel are served coffee on Empire Day at the H Street Club. From left to right: Major Bernice Keplinger (WAC) from the Office of Education and Information of the Army, Subaltern E. McAdam, company officer of A.T.S., Lieutenant (junior grade) Ruth Hawkins of the Welfare and Recreation Office of the Potomac River Naval Command, and Colonel Westray Battle Boyce, Director of the WACs. Seated is Mrs. Henry Jewett, Member of the Public Relations Committee of the H Street Club.

A group of unidentified guests and military officers are attending the dinner to honor Women's Army Corps Colonel Westray Battle Boyce. Colonel Boyce conducted a tour of WAC facilities in the Philippines.

Dr. Marion E. Kenworthy in uniform. Dr. Kenworthy traveled with Colonel Westray Battle Boyce on her tour of Women's Army Corps (WAC) facilities in the Pacific Theatre.

From left to right WAC Lieutenant Colonel Katharine Goodwin, WAC Staff Director for Army Service Forces; Mary (Mrs. Oswald) Lord, Chairman of the National Civilian Advisory Committee for WAC Affairs; Captain Lillian Harris, Executive Officer 2629th WAC Battalion and Major Helen Hanson, WAC Staff Director in Italy pose for a photograph at the retreat ceremony in the WAC Battalion Area, Caserta, Italy.

Mary (Mrs. Oswald) Lord, Chairman of the National Civilian Advisory Committee for WAC Affairs (right, beside woman with glasses) and Lieutenant Colonel Katharine Goodwin (center foreground, next to post, facing camera) talk with unidentified Fifth Army WACs who are leaving Caserta, Italy to return to the United States for redeployment.

WAC Private Helen E. Carlson of Chicago, Illinois, looks over the record collection in the WAC Day Room during some free time. Carlson was a member of the WAC 6669th WAC Headquarters Platoon supporting the Fifth Army, stationed in the San Marco area in Italy.

WAC Technician Mary M. Malloy of the 6669th WAC Headquarters platoon "was pleasantly surprised to find the 'Crossroads of the World' the much publicized 42nd Street and Broadway sign, located in Fifth Army HQS area, somewhere in Italy." Fifth Army, Sparamise Area, Italy.

An unidentified female entertainer poses for a photograph at an unknown location.

Lieutenant Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (fifth from left, in back corner) joins other civilians and military personnel at a dinner. Location unknown.

A group of unidentified Arab men and women walk along the road and rest under a tree somewhere in North Africa.