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000004384 1001_ $$aAdams, Elizabeth Fisher, 1906-1990
000004384 245__ $$aElizabeth Adams correspondence: 1945-08-11
000004384 246__ $$aElizabeth Adams letter
000004384 264_1 $$cAugust 11, 1945
000004384 269__ $$a1945-08-11
000004384 300__ $$a5 pages ; each  27.9 x 21.6 cm.
000004384 336__ $$atext
000004384 500__ $$aLetter from Elizabeth Adams to her family, dated Saturday, August 11, [1945].
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000004384 590__ $$aElizabeth Fisher Adams, a 1929 graduate of Skidmore, began training in 1940 for a position as an ambulance driver for Anne Morgan's war aid organization, CASC—Comité Américain de Secours Civil, in France. Adams worked on the Belgian front from 1940 - 1941, and was awarded the Croix de Geurre for her services. She returned to the United States as a speaker for the Committee to Defend America and gave a speaking tour through New England. Adams joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. (W.A.A.C.) in 1942, and was appointed third officer, working in the public relations office in Ft. Des Moines, Ohio. In 1943, Adams received an Honorable Discharge from W.A.A.C. because of a back injury. Adams returned to France in 1945 to work with American Aid to France (A.A.T.F.) and was stationed in St. Die and Corcieux in the Vosges mountains, where she was occupied with organizing the relief effort for six towns in the area. In 1948, Adams was awarded the Médaille de la Reconnaissance française for her work with the Friendship train food distribution program.
000004384 650__ $$aAdams, Elizabeth Fisher, 1906-1990 -- Correspondence
000004384 650__ $$aWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
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