Two Waterloo women have been accepted for service in the women's army corps, one with the air transport command and the other in the regular corps., it was announced Wednesday by Lt. Eleanor Lee, at army recruiting headquarters in the federal building here.
New Wacs are Inez L. Campbell, 21, of 408 1/2 East Thompson avenue, and Norma J. Collins, 20, of 744 Conger street.
Miss Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Campbell, Hawkeye, Ia., was employed a the John Deere Tractor Co, before her enlistment in the transport command. She will be called to active duty about Aug. 15, and will receive training at Fort Des Moines and Rosecrans field, St. Joseph, Mo.
One brother Virgil P., is serving with the infantry in China, and another, William D., is in training for the navy air corps in Minneapolis, Minn.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA -- July 12, 1944
Hawkeye -- Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell of near Hawkeye, formerly of Stanley, have a daughter, two sons and a son-in-law in the service of their nation.
Pvt. Inez L Campbell enlisted for special assignment in the air transport command and reported for active duty in August 1944, and is now working in the personnel office in base headquarters at Dow field Bangor, Me., as a file clerk. In her spare time she is a volunteer working in a hospital where wounded are being evacuated.
Her brother, Staff Sgt. Virgil Campbell, volunteered for overseas service and went to north Africa in August, 1943. He served afterward in India until February, and then was sent to China, where he is still stationed. He is transmitter at the headquarters of the motor pool and teach Chinese soldiers. Before he joined the army, he was a ranch foreman in Wyoming.
William D. Campbell Jr., seaman first class in the navy, enlisted as naval aviation cadet in December, 1942, in the navy V-5 program and was called in July, 1943. After attending navy preflight school at Iowa and receiving preliminary flight training at Minneapolis he was reclassified to V-6 to attend aviation radio school at the navy air technical training center at Memphis, Tenn. Next he had aerial gunnery instruction at Miami, Fla., and next is to have training as aviation radio gunner. Before his induction, he was a clerk at the John Deere Tractor Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell's son-in-law is Cpl. William F. Sims, who was inducted Apr. 30, 1942, and was trained as an airplane mechanic and Allison engine specialist. He was sent to England in September 1943, where he was attached to the 343rd bomb group of the 454th bomber squadron of the Ninth AAF. He is in France now. Corporal Sims is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Sims of Oelwein.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - April 5, 1945 (photo included)
