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Magazine article, four pages, reprinted, with permission, from Ebony, October 1968, describing the work of "the only Negro girl at that time working with the Red Cross Recreational Service," Barbara Lynn, 26 of Youngstown, Ohio.

Esther Gleaton joined the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in 1966, because it offered her opportunity to travel beyond her Atlanta, Georgia, hometown and made her eligible to receive the G.I. Bill for college. She needed her parent’s permission, which they…

Army physical therapist Aida Nancy Sanchez, originally from Santurce, Puerto Rico, served at the 95th Evacuation Hospital near Da Nang, Vietnam, from December 1970 to December 1971. As the first physical therapist assigned to the hospital, she set up…