Today's Document

WAC Sergeants Returning to Italy, 1/13/1945.

Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, 9/1942 - 12/1945. Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of Transportation, 1917 - 1966.

Original caption: “Two members of the Women’s Army Corps returning to Italy after thirty-day furloughs in the United States are shown in the Women’s Staging Area Day Room while awaiting shipment. Both are members of Shipment AG-558-TDRC. T/3 Marjorie G. Byram, A-915018, Twin Falls, Idaho (left), formerly a member of the First WAC Company, HRPE. She later transferred to the Fifth Army as a secretary in G-1 in Italy; M/Sgt. Katherine M. Pyle, A-900201, San Diego, California, is a secretary for the General Staff, Allied Force Headquarters. She received word of her promotion to Master Sergeant while home on furlough. Both Sgt. Byram and Sgt. Pyle hold the WAC Service Ribbon, Good Conduct Ribbon, and European-African Theater Ribbon with two battle stars, and have been in the service two and on-half years. Official photograph U.S. Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News, Virginia.”