Davenport Women at WAAC Training Camp
Two women from Davenport, Mrs. Dorothy J. LeFevre, Hotel Blackhawk and Dorothy L. Guthrie, 226 South Howell street, have started their auxiliary training at the WAAC station at Fort Des Moines.
They have been assigned to a receiving center company for a week of preliminary training and classification tests and then they will be assigned to a basic company for more detailed training.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA - February 22, 1943
Enjoys Experience in WAAC
Auxiliary Dorothy LeFevre, formerly of 815 East Locust street, Davenport, is enjoying her experience with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps at Fort Des Moines, and is shown relating them in a letter to her husband, who is a lieutenant with the French forces in 1940 when France fell under Nazi oppression, but became ineligible for service with the American forces due to a heart injury.
Now he has taken his place in the fight for victory as production manager with the Army Ordnance department in Davenport. His young wife, Dorothy J. LeFevre, is carrying on his service in the cause for which America is putting forth every effort, by taking her place in active service as a member of the WAACS. She was formerly in the WPB office here and has also worked with the British Purchasing Commission in Washington, D.C. and the American Red Cross in Chicago.
Auxiliary LeFevre arrived a Fort Des Moines Feb 11, and after a week in the barracks at the receiving center, where she was issued her uniform and taught certain fundamentals of army life, she moved out to the newly built barracks in "Boomtown" as the new addition to the one-time cavalry post is called.
Auxiliary LeFevre states that her husband encouraged her to join the WAAC, realizing that her service would enable a soldier to go to the front. She has signed up for Administration school to equip her for a desk job in the army.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA - March 15, 1943 (photo included)
United Nations Baby
A 10 pound, six-ounce son, named Bernard Louis, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert LeFevre, 35 Oak lane, Davenport, at St. Luke's hospital Monday at 9:08 p.m.
Mr. LeFevre was formerly in the French army, having been commissioned as an aspirant, the equivalent of a second lieutenant in the American service, shortly before Dunkirk and escaped the Nazis after the fall of France.
Mrs. LeFevre, the former Miss Dorothy Kay, was honorably discharged form the Women's Army corps last February after a year's service in which she attained the rank of staff sergeant in the chief of staff office in Washington.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA - August 15, 1944
