Two Women Complete Enlistment in WAAC
Sylvia T. Peet, 1269 Second avenue SE, and Euna B. Hahn, 517 Fourth avenue SE, have completed enlistment in the WAAC and will be called to duty June 3, it was reported at the Cedar Rapids army recruiting station Tuesday.
Miss Peet will report to the third WAAC training center at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and Miss Hahn to Fort Des Moines. Before entering the corps, Miss Hahn was employed as personnel director and supervisor of Davis Cleaners.
She is the third member of her family to enter the service. One brother, Lieut. Berl D. Grummitt, is serving with the army in India, and another brother, Seaman Second Class Harold Grummitt, is in the navy medical corps.
Source: The Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 25, 1943
FIRST FOUR -- Cedar Rapids women to be enlisted for the all-Iowa company of WACs left Tuesday afternoon for Fort Des Moines. Shaking hands with Lieut. Candace B. Arsers, Cedar Rapids WAC recruiter, is Jane L. Johnson, 115 Sixteenth street SE. Other in the group are left to right, Sylvia Peet, 1269 Second avenue SE, Marian F. Maroney, 1720 Second avenue SE and Vernalda Rogers, 2201 D Street SW.
Mrs. Peet, formerly a member of the WAAC, was reenlisting in the WAC after having been out of uniform for several weeks. All the women will leave Fort Des Moines Wednesday evening for Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., to begin training as part of the first all-Iowa company. They will wear a special shoulder insignia and will march under the state flag.
Source: The Cedar Rapids Gazette, October 20, 1943 (photo included)
WAR IS HELL DEPT. -- This is story about a WAC from Cedar Rapids, Cpl. Sylvia Peet, in the South Pacific, daughter of Mrs. Mitzi Gugenbuel, 346 Rockford Rd SW.
Cpl. Peet is in a war theater and the office to which she is attached is open day and night. A recent letter from her included this: " Yes, the skin disease was painful and I hope I never have to go through anything like it again. I can't describe how terrible it was. My entire face was raw like beefsteak and I had to hold a towel to it all the time as it 'wept' this is what it literally did, just oozed water all the time. Later in the hospital it spread to my scalp and to other parts of my body.
My ears also ran as result I lost my hearing partially, but the doctor said it would come back and would heal completely when I reached the States. It is so hard for anything to heal in this climate. You see the temperature is so hot all the time, no cold to kill germs...I'm okay now...
The tropics get you in a strange way. You feel listless and you just about drag yourself around. You would be surprised how important diet is. I was always so full of peep in the States but the lack of milk, fresh fruit and vegetables sure slows me down. Boy, I sure would give a lot for a quart of milk, I don't care if it's grade A, B, C or D".
Cpl. Peet has a son in service, Julius N. Peet, AMM 2/c, with a naval air unit in the South Pacific.
Source: The Cedar Rapids Gazette, March 18, 1945 (photo included)
SHE'S IN THE ARMY AGAIN -- Corporal Sylvia Peet of Cedar Rapids and Major Harry E. Hoch re-enact the army's swearing-in ceremony. Corporal Peet, a veteran of two and a half years of army life and wearer of four battle stars, Monday re-enlisted in the WAC for duty in the European theater. She had already served a year in the Pacific. Major Hoch is in charge of the army's recruiting in the Cedar Rapids area.
Source: The Cedar Rapids Gazette, April 23, 1946 (photo included)
