Women soldiers

Women's Army Corps (WAC) Colonel Westray Battle Boyce poses for a photograph while visiting the Seventh Service Command Headquarters at Omaha, Nebraska.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (center, left) talks with Corporal Ricker and Sergeant Brown while visiting Shaw Army Air Field in Sumter, South Carolina. All other women in the background are unidentified.

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.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (left) poses for a photograph with two unidentified WACs while visiting Shaw Army Air Field in Sumter, South Carolina.

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.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce poses with Sergeant Wilkerson while visiting Shaw Army Air Field in Sumter, South Carolina.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (center) meets with two unidentified United States Army officers at an unidentified location.

Colonel Westray B. Boyce (center) poses with a group of unidentified WAC officers and a map showing the distribution of WACs in the United States as of June 1, 1946.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (sitting, left) discusses a map of the geographic distribution of WAC personnel in the United States as of June 1, 1946 with a group of unidentified WAC officers.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (second from left) poses with unidentified WAC officers and a map of the geographic distribution of WACs dated June 1, 1946.