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- Name:
- Violet Caroline Bascik Smolek
- State of Birth:
- MI
- Home State:
- MI
- Note
- Veteran's biographical form lists race/ethnicity as Polish.
- Gender
- Female
- Race
- Other
- War or Conflict
- World War, 1939-1945
- Military Status
- Veteran
- Dates of Service
- 1944-1946
- Entrance into Service
- Enlisted
- Branch of Service
- WAC (Women's Army Corps)
- Unit of Service
- 1st WAC Special Services
- Location of Service
- European Theater; Paris, France; Berchtesgaden, Germany; El Paso, Texas
- Highest Rank
- Corporal
- Prisoner of War
- No
- Service History Note
- Th veteran served as the first medical artist WAC and worked with plastic surgeons in William Beaumont Hospital, El Paso, Texas.
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- Type of Resource:
- Video: MiniDV [1 item] -- Oral history interview
- Photograph: Digital print [1 item] -- Photograph
- Manuscript: Creative works [81 items] -- Handwritten document
- Interviewer:
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Nancy Mitchell
- Interviewer:
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Ellen K. Donnelly
- Contributor Affiliation/Organization:
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Library of Congress
- Collection #:
- AFC/2001/001/60717
- Subjects:
- Smolek, Violet Caroline Bascik
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps.
- Cite as:
- Violet Caroline Bascik Smolek Collection
(AFC/2001/001/60717), Veterans History Project,
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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