Hi Gang, There's a book for sale by an Aileen Kilgore Henderson on ebay, and the description is below if any of her relatives/ancestors are interested. I remember while researching my Kilgores that I kept running into Kilgores and Hendersons in cahoots, so someone here is bound to be connected. It's ebay item # 1522416651 if you want to look for yourself. Warm regards, Randy Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps 1944-1945 by Aileen Kilgore Henderson. "I don't know anybody who has ever done such a daring thing as I have done," twenty-two year old Aileen Kilgore of Brookwood, Alabama, wrote in her diary in January 1944, after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. From basic training in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to her discharge in late 1945, Kilgore served as one of more than 150,000 American women who joined the Women's Army Corps - the first group of women other than nurses to serve in the ranks of the United States Army. Now, more than fifty years later, Aileen Kilgore Henderson has collected and edited diary entries and personal letters that recount in an engaging narrative style her twenty-three months of experiences in the Army. A skilled writer of fiction and nonfiction, Henderson addresses a little-explored facet of World War II - the military service of women stationed stateside.

A couple of nights ago I was going thru some things and ran across this: Willy's-Americar Women's Motor Defense Corps Certificate of Proficiency This is to certify that Viola [Kilgore] Marlow has successfully completed a course of instruction in the basic principles of automobile construction, maintenance, and operation, and is deemed qualified as a proficient motor vehicle technician. Dated: July 25, 1941 Signed by: President of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. She also did much more in WWII. Gail