Aux. Betty Vosika at WAAC Training Center in Georgia
Auxiliary Betty J. Vosika, who was sworn into the WAAC at Des Moines two weeks ago, has been sent to the training center at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Aux. Vosika who is the former Betty Waisner, has the following address: Aux. Betty J. Vosika, Co. 8, Regt. 21, 3rd WAAC Training Center, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. She is a sister if Mrs. Ray Wilkens of Carroll. Aux Vosika has signed up for foreign service. Her husband, Tech. Sgt. Edmund J. Vosika is somewhere in Egypt.
Source: The Carroll Daily Times Herald, May 13, 1943
70 Pct. Of Iowa WACs From Fighting Families
A survey of approximately 70 per cent of the total Iowa WAC enlistment reveals its close integration with the war effort through service of members overseas and in this county, and through other members of their families.
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The following Iowa WACs have an army postoffice address, indicating overseas service, but their exact station is not known:
Pvt. Betty J. Vosika, Carroll, is on foreign duty with a WAC communications company.
Secrecy covering overseas shipment makes it impossible to determine if additional Iowans have gone on foreign duty since early fall.
Source: Des Moines Register, December 5, 1943
Betty J. Vosika on Visit Here Following Discharge from WAC
T/4 Betty J. Vosika, who was discharged from the Women's Army Corps at Fort Sheridan, Ill., on points, is spending some time with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilkens, at Carroll, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Bailley, at Maple River.
She has four overseas stripes for her two years in Italy and Africa. She was in the service two and one-half years altogether.
Mrs. Vosika also has the ETO ribbon, the good conduct ribbon and a unit citation.
Source: Carroll Daily Times Herald, October 12, 1945
Betty Jean Herman Vosika Inghram Pullar was born Jan. 13, 1924 to George E. and Berniece M. Troxel Herman. She died Mar. 11, 1999 and is buried in Sunrise Memorial Park, Hermantown, MN.
Betty served in World War II with the U.S. Army WACs.
Source: ancestry.com
