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Inez Stroud, shortly after she became a WAC in1943 - The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project - Inez Stroud of Wilmington, North Carolina, served in the Women’s Army Corps and then the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1969. Her papers are at the University of North Carolina, at library.uncg.edu/....
WW II Hospital Trains
Col. T. M. Lowry, Port Surgeon, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, standing beside Medical Dept. Hospital Ward Car, USA 8906, on Pier 5, Newport News, VA, 29 May 1943. The car is standing by awaiting debarkation of 204 wounded American soldiers from Tunisia. Two of these hospital cars transferred the patients to the Valley Forge General Hospital, Phoenixville, PA.