Women are all too easily forgotten when it comes to war. In this unique volume, Cindy Weigand tells the individual stories of female WWII veterans now living in Texas. These courageious women reveal their war experiences detailing physical exams, troop train rides, and coping with the reactions of their families. They describe the trials of seeing fiances one day and losing them the next, healing the emotional and mental as well as the physical wounds, and enduring extreme conditions in service to their country.
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Oveta Culp Hobby | 4 |
| 2 | Mac McWilliams Barry | 17 |
| 3 | Therese Slone-Baker | 27 |
| 4 | Patsy Bruner Palmquist | 34 |
| 5 | Lois C. Jones | 40 |
| 6 | Ruth Hamilton Prengle | 47 |
| 7 | Buena "Mac" McQueen Lehman | 56 |
| 8 | Doris McCraw Cobb | 64 |
| 9 | Marion K. Kennedy | 72 |
| 10 | Patricia "Pat" D. Costello Hutchinson | 79 |
| 11 | Dorothy Davis Thompson | 96 |
| 12 | H. R. Brantley | 112 |
| 13 | Mary Ellen Ancelin Guay | 132 |
| 14 | Gladys "Linky" Sommer Brokhausen | 138 |
| 15 | Evelyn Wheeler Swenson | 149 |
| 16 | Margaret "Peggy" Peck Baros | 155 |
| 17 | Juanita Mang Gosch | 159 |
| 18 | Doris Baker Howard | 162 |
| 19 | Janie "Tex" Sheppard | 166 |
| 20 | Vera "Dee" Dietel Crawford | 171 |
| 21 | Florene Miller Watson | 179 |
| 22 | Marie Muccie Genaro | 187 |
| 23 | Lois Brooks Hailey | 196 |
| 24 | Madge Leon Moore | 204 |
| 25 | Elizabeth "Betty" Williamson Shipley | 211 |
| 26 | Dorothy A. Lucas | 218 |
| 27 | Linden N. Anderson | 224 |
| App. 1 | 235 | |
| App. 2 | 239 | |
| Further Reading and Other Resources | 249 | |
| Index | 251 | |
| About the Author | 257 |
Anonymous
Posted April 30, 2005
Many of members of the greatest generation are around us and a unique historian like Ms. Weigand makes their story available to future generations. Hopefully, Texas Republic Publishers will keep 'TEXAS WOMEN IN WORLD WAR II' available for many years to come. Like Stephen Ambrose's 'Band Of Borthers' it is a treasured reference that should not be over-looked
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Women are all too easily forgotten when it comes to war. In this unique volume, Cindy Weigand tells the individual stories of female WWII veterans now living in Texas. These courageious women reveal their war experiences detailing physical exams, troop train rides, and coping with the reactions of their families. They describe the trials of seeing fiances one day and losing them the next, healing the emotional and mental as well as the physical wounds, and enduring extreme ...