title: Oral History Interview with Jean Adams, September 17, 2017
creator: Adams, Jean
contributor: Fargo, John
contributor: Cox, Floyd C.
publisher: National Museum of the Pacific War
date: 2017-09-17
language: English
description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with
 Jean Adams. Adams was born in Washington, DC. Her father served in the
 military as well as her two brothers. She attended an all-girls school in
 Washington and graduated from a women’s college in Philadelphia. In 1940 she
 joined her brother in the Philippines but was evacuated in 1941. She joined
 the second class of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WACs) in 1942. She was
 assigned to the Office of Inspector General and tells of several
 investigations in which she was involved. She resigned from WACs soon after
 getting married in 1943.
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: People - Individuals
subject: Military and War - Wars - World War II
subject: Interviews
subject: Oral histories
subject: Personal narratives
subject: Autobiographies
subject: Biographies
subject: WWII
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
subject: United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
subject: Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995
rights: Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
rights: Commercial use is prohibited without permission from the National Museum
 of the Pacific War.
type: Text
format: 9 p.
format: Text
identifier: local-cont-no: OH04489
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu./ark:/67531/metapth1606935/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth1606935