Interview of Elizabeth Crane Anesi on her service in the Women's Army Corps during World War II
Elizabeth Crane Anesi talks about enlisting for officer training in the Women's U.S. Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, establishing an embarkation point in San Francisco as her first major assignment, and how the WAAC was changed to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) within a year of her enlistment. Anesi also talks about being transferred to New York, visiting President Roosevelt's grave, establishing a rest and relaxation post at an unused dorm at Vassar College, and her last assignment which was conducting POW separation interviews in Indiana.
Read
- In Collections
-
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2002-03-11
- Interviewees
-
Anesi, Elizabeth Crane
- Interviewers
-
McLennan, Sarah E.
- Subjects
-
Anesi, Elizabeth Crane
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
World War (1939-1945)
Military participation--Female
Prisoners of war
Recruiting and enlistment
Tombs
Women veterans
United States
- Material Type
-
Sound recordings
- Series
-
Few good women
- Language
-
English
- Extent
- 01:14:34
- Venue Note
-
Recorded 2002 March 11
- Holding Institution
-
Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 41739
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b13078457
- Permalink
- https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5dr2qk28