Women's Army Corps

Alice Davey , having re-enlisted in the newly reconstituted Women's Army Corps , was posted to the Pentagon in Washington, DC, where she was soon working at the new skill of photointerpretation.

At the end of that year she began work as a journalist (a job arranged by her parents) on the recently-launched Chicago Sun. Next spring, with war service calling, she thought of training as...

The article entitled I am a WAAC by Alice Bradley Davey (the later JTJ ) which appeared in Mademoiselle was short, bright, uncomplicated, silent on her painful ambivalence about the service.

She worked in spring 1945 on two stories about the WAC (one about a close friendship between two women and one about a middle-aged Wac being mocked by male officers). Both were rejected for publication....