Contributed by Bangor Public Library
Description
An unidentified WAC lieutenant poses in an unusual uniform. Probably just returned from India (the CBI China Burma India Theatre), she is outfitted in a British style jacket with four buttons and a cloth belt and slacks. The uniform was probably privately purchased.
About This Item
- Title: WAC CBI theatre portrait, Dow Air Field, Bangor, ca. 1944
- Creator: Signal Section Dow Field
- Creation Date: circa 1944
- Subject Date: circa 1944
- Location: Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 10 cm
- Local Code: 974.131 .D752a v.1
- Collection: Dow Field Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
- Portrait photographs
- Dow Field Hospital (Me.)
- Dow Air Force Base (Me.)
- Women--Military service
- Uniforms
Other Keywords
- Air Force
- Army Air Corps
- Aviation
- Bangor
- Dow Air Force Base
- Dow Field
- Military
- WAC
- Women's Army Corps
- World War Two
For more information about this item, contact:
Bangor Public Library145 Harlow Street, Bangor, ME 04401
(207) 947-8336
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