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Leland native, Mary Allen joined the newly formed Women\\u2019s Army Corps in the Summer of 1943. In this episode, she recalls the public\\u2019s negative reaction to the WACs and how she gained her father\\u2019s approval. As a recruiter for the Women\\u2019s Army Corps, Mary Allen signed up young women for service during WWII. She remembers travelling around South Alabama convincing parents to allow their daughters to join.

The Caterpillar Club honors people who have jumped by parachute from a disabled airplane. Allen describes joining that group when the military plane she was riding in crashed. During the final year of WWII, Allen was assigned to a hospital providing support services for soldiers. She discusses riding the hospital trains and the pitiful condition of the returning POWs.