Grace Thorpe at Fort Oglethorpe

ID: 10 ~ Source: Scrapbook WAC Photographs and Clippings 1943-1945, Grace Thorpe Collection, Folder 7, National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution. ~ Creator: U.S. Army ~ Date: ca. 1943

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ID: Black and white portrait of a Native American woman wearing a tan Army Uniform and saluting.

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Grace Thorpe – WAAC Recruiter, American Indian Advocate, Environmental Activist

“Well then after I got out of the service I was discharged from the WAC in Manilla, and I took a War Department Job in Tokyo. That’s when the occupation had just started there. As a matter of fact, I was in the first plane of women going into…