#TBT - Women's Army Corps Scrapbook

In November of 1942, local teacher Virginia Shewalter, resident of West Chester, and native of Gano joined the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), a women’s auxiliary unit to the United States Army. Stateside, she spent time at Fort Des Moines (Iowa), where she attended boot camp, and Fort Devens (Mass.).

In July of 1943, the WAAC became the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and, in August of 1943, Lt. Virginia left the United States for England and, eventually, France and Germany.

Learn more about Captain Shewalter (she was promoted by the end of the war) and her service in the Virginia Shewalter Letters Collection - http://www.midpointedigitalarchives.org/digital/collection/MPD01 - which contains over 250 personal letters written by Cpt. Shewalter from 1942 to 1943 and a personally curated scrapbook that covers her military service and the journey home.