Women's Army Corps members in Leyte Island
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PFC Ines Kirkman of Des Moines, Iowa, Cpl. Glena Cooper of Beaver Dam, Kentucky, PFC Billy Vinyard of Yerba Buena, California wring out their clothes after their tent collapsed in a rainstorm at the Advance WAC Detachment Area, Leyte Island.
This file appears in: Fort Des Moines: Chronology
Fort Des Moines: Chronology
1901 Construction begins on the 400-acre base Fort Des Moines on Des Moines’ South Side.1903-1904 Two companies of the all-black U.S. Army 25th Infantry surprise Des Moines’ local citizens by arriving instead of white cavalry. The 25th had been…