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000004380 02480 $$aElizabeth_Adams_letter_06_09_1940
000004380 041__ $$aEnglish
000004380 1001_ $$aAdams, Elizabeth Fisher, 1906-1990
000004380 245__ $$aElizabeth Adams correspondence: 1940-06-09
000004380 246__ $$aElizabeth Adams letter
000004380 264_1 $$cJune 9, 1940
000004380 269__ $$a1940-06-09
000004380 300__ $$a2 pages ; handwritten ; 21.5 x 13.4 cm.
000004380 336__ $$atext
000004380 500__ $$aLetter from Elizabeth Adams to her family: "Paris Sunday - June 9th, 1940. (midnight)." Letter is excerpted in the "Skidmore Alumnae Bulletin," Summer, 1940, p.3.
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000004380 590__ $$aElizabeth Fisher Adams, a 1929 graduate of Skidmore, began training in 1940 for a position as an ambulance driver for Anne Morgan's war aid organization, CASC—Comité Américain de Secours Civil, in France. Adams worked on the Belgian front from 1940 - 1941, and was awarded the Croix de Geurre for her services. She returned to the United States as a speaker for the Committee to Defend America and gave a speaking tour through New England. Adams joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. (W.A.A.C.) in 1942, and was appointed third officer, working in the public relations office in Ft. Des Moines, Ohio. In 1943, Adams received an Honorable Discharge from W.A.A.C. because of a back injury. Adams returned to France in 1945 to work with American Aid to France (A.A.T.F.) and was stationed in St. Die and Corcieux in the Vosges mountains, where she was occupied with organizing the relief effort for six towns in the area. In 1948, Adams was awarded the Médaille de la Reconnaissance française for her work with the Friendship train food distribution program.
000004380 650__ $$aAdams, Elizabeth Fisher, 1906-1990 -- Correspondence
000004380 650__ $$aWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
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