S.U.I. Women and the WAC
Former students and Alumnae Now Serve Overseas and in Army Bases Throughout This Country
DES MOINES -- Take a cross section of American women - and you have the WAC. Take a cross section of the higher-education WAC groups, and you have S.U.I. WACs.
They range from captain to private. You find them working for Uncle Sam wearing his uniform in every part of the country. There's one in England; there's another in Africa; there's a third simply "overseas". You'll find them at the air bases driving trucks, tanks, and jeeps at army camps, working in army hospitals, sending out messages by radio, teaching army subjects to army people.
Here is a partial list of them -- Iowa home girls only -- where they are and what they are doing since they switched from S.U.I to G.I.
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HAZEL E. CRADDOCK of Des Moines enlisted on May 17, less than a month after graduation and is now at officers training school at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. After her basic training at Ft. Des Moines, she attended the army administration school in Des Moines.
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, November 30, 1943
DES MOINES IN THE SERVICES
Hazel E. Craddock, 1263 E. Seventeenth st. recently was promoted to first lieutenant at Rouen, France, where she is post utilities officer with the 688th central postal directory battalion. This is the only Negro WAC battalion serving overseas. It arrived in England with 738 members, 23 of which were officers, and comprised the only all-woman United States army postal unit sent overseas. Later the battalion was transferred to Rouen to handle the mail of American soldiers in that area.
Source: DesMoines Tribune, December 31, 1945
DES MOINES IN THE SERVICES
First Lt. Hazel E. Craddock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Naomis A. Craddock, 1263 E. Seventeenth st, is a postal officer in the 6888th central postal directory in Paris. A graduate of the State University of Iowa, she entered service in May 1943. She arrived in England in February, 1945, and, before her move to France, was stationed in England.
Source: DesMoines Tribune, February 27, 1946
