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RARE.2018.0015: Purchased, 2017 January.
[identification of item], Eileen Wisander Family Photograph Album and Women's Army Corps Photograph Album, SPEC.RARE.0199, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Processed by: Mackenzie Sommers, 2018 February. Finding Aid written by: Mackenzie Sommers, 2018 February.
Eileen Wisander (1925-2001) lived in Columbia Station, Ohio. In February 1944, she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (sometimes called WAC). She was a part of the 3rd platoon while stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Tennessee. After that she was stationed in Georgia and New Mexico. Following the end of World War II, Eileen returned home to Columbia Station where she married Harold Davey in 1952.
The Eileen Wisander Family Photograph Album and Women's Army Corps Photograph Album contains two photograph albums. One of the scrapbooks chronicles Wisander's life while in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, and the other photograph album chronicles her life before and after the war. The two photograph albums cover the years 1931-1946.