Crawford County

 
Sgt. Florence Leaf

 

 

S.U.I. Women and the WAC

Former students and Alumnae Now Serve Overseas and in Army Bases Throughout This Country

DES MOINES -- Take a cross section of American women - and you have the WAC. Take a cross section of the higher-education WAC groups, and you have S.U.I. WACs.

They range from captain to private. You find them working for Uncle Sam wearing his uniform in every part of the country. There's one in England; there's another in Africa; there's a third simply "overseas". You'll find them at the air bases driving trucks, tanks, and jeeps at army camps, working in army hospitals, sending out messages by radio, teaching army subjects to army people.

Here is a partial list of them -- Iowa home girls only -- where they are and what they are doing since they switched from S.U.I to G.I.

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SRGT. FLORENCE LEAF, who received a bachelor's and master's degree both from S.U.I. in Spanish and French, and Phi Beta Kappa keys as well, works in the dispatcher's office at the army air base, Alamogordo, N.M.

Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, November 30, 1943

Florence Leaf was born about 1922 to Louis and Rose Lillian Epstein Leaf.

Florence served in World War II with the U.S. Army WACs.

Source: ancestry.com