TECH4 Carmen C. Bozak Oral History Part 1
Publication date: 23 November 2021
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title:
TECH4 Carmen C. Bozak Oral History Part 1
creator:
Bozak, Carmen (Contreras) (1919 December 31 - 2017 January 30)
subject:
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) | Women's Army Corps (WAC) | Army Signal Corps | WAC Veterans' Association
description:
Part 1 of 2. Born December 31, 1919 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, Carmen Bozak (Contreras) enlisted in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later the Women's Army Corps) in 1942. As a member of the 149th WAAC Headquarters Company, she was part of the first company to go overseas, serving as a teletype operator in the Army Signal Corps in Algiers, North Africa under General Dwight D. Eisenhower. After the war ended, she served in Caserta, Italy, and in 1946 she received an honorable discharge due to an eye infection that never fully healed. In 1961, Carmen joined the Women's Army Corps Veteran's Association and started a chapter in Broward County, Florida in 1989. She was also a member of the WAC Veteran's National Honor Guard for 23 years as of the interview, and hadn't yet resigned. She has since passed in January 2017. A transcript of this interview is available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Pedemonte, Monica
date:
2004-03-08
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
99.01; 2004.099
source:
OHP
language:
English
relation:
010912
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1942-1946