In Africa
Two Iowa women, Sergt. Joyce Stephens Smith, Des Moines, and Corp. Miriam Stehlik Drahos, Cedar Rapids, were included in the first group of WACs sent to North Africa a year ago.
Sergeant Smith, whose father was a Spanish-American war veteran, is a message decoder in North Africa. She has two brothers and a sister in various branches of the service.
Corporal Drahos is one of the first WACs to be honorably discharged because of injury received in foreign service.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, Dec. 5, 1943
