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000004377 02480 $$aElizabeth_Adams_photograph_1940_en_route
000004377 1001_ $$aunknown photographer
000004377 245__ $$aElizabeth Adams photograph: en route
000004377 246__ $$aEn route
000004377 264_1 $$c1940
000004377 269__ $$a1940
000004377 300__ $$a5.4 x 8.1 cm. (image)
000004377 336__ $$astill image
000004377 500__ $$aPhotograph of Elizabeth Adams (left) and an unidentified woman pictured next  to a CASC—Comité Américain de Secours Civil vehicle.
000004377 542__ $$fIN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
000004377 542__ $$uhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
000004377 590__ $$aElizabeth Fisher Adams, a 1929 graduate of Skidmore, began training in 1940 for a position as an ambulance driver for Anne Morgan's war aid organization, CASC—Comité Américain de Secours Civil, in France. Adams worked on the Belgian front from 1940 - 1941, and was awarded the Croix de Geurre for her services. She returned to the United States as a speaker for the Committee to Defend America and gave a speaking tour through New England. Adams joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. (W.A.A.C.) in 1942, and was appointed third officer, working in the public relations office in Ft. Des Moines, Ohio. In 1943, Adams received an Honorable Discharge from W.A.A.C. because of a back injury. Adams returned to France in 1945 to work with American Aid to France (A.A.T.F.) and was stationed in St. Die and Corcieux in the Vosges mountains, where she was occupied with organizing the relief effort for six towns in the area. In 1948, Adams was awarded the Médaille de la Reconnaissance française for her work with the Friendship train food distribution program.
000004377 650__ $$aWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
000004377 650__ $$aWorld War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Photographs
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000004377 980__ $$aElizabeth Fisher Adams ’29, Photographs/Identity Cards