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Katherine Seares, a recreation worker for the Red Cross Association, recounts the morale of the wounded after spending two years in three combat zones of the European Theater.

Lois M. Thompson, widow to Lieutenant Jay R. Thompson, who died in a plane crash, entered the Army Ferry Command Service to follow in her husband's footsteps.

Norma Jean Allen left Willys-Overland Motor Co. to become Toledo's first woman to enter the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Shirley Chapman is the only known Toledo woman who entertained with her own USO troupe overseas. She and her husband and manager, Arthur Angel, traveled with the Army to North Africa, Sicily, and Italy to entertain troops.