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{{Infobox person
|name = Gladys Shuster Carter
|death_date = {{Death date|2009|06|30|}}
|death_place = Chesapeake, Virginia}}Gladys Shuster Carter was one of 885 women who served in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, helping to process backlogged mail in the European theater of war. [1]

Carter served for two years in the WAC from February 1943 to November 1945 and achieved the rank of Private First Class. She was a founding member of the local chapter of the National Association of Black Military Women in Greater Hampton Roads, Virginia.[2]

References

1. ^https://pilotonline.com/news/military/article_16f18b46-034c-5a6d-8df9-53b8d56c06cd.html
2. ^https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+SJ36+pdf

Further reading

  • {{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=Brenda L. |title=To serve my country, to serve my race : the story of the only African American WACS stationed overseas during World War II |date=1996 |publisher=New York University Press |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/to-serve-my-country-to-serve-my-race-the-story-of-the-only-african-american-wacs-stationed-overseas-during-world-war-ii/oclc/32854455 |accessdate=March 22, 2019}}
  • {{cite web |title=The 5 Living Legacies of the 6888th |url=https://www.nabmw.org/6888th-postal-monument |website=National Association of Black Military Women |accessdate=March 22, 2019}}
  • {{cite web |title=6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (Women's Army Corps) |url=https://history.army.mil/html/topics/afam/6888thPBn/index.html |website=U.S. Army Center of Military History |accessdate=March 22, 2019}}
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