The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Esther Mae Nesbitt-- Part 2: Member of the WACs
She was the third woman to step ashore on Omaha Beach which she did on July 14, 1944. She was a master sergeant assigned the Allied forward communications. Her WAC unit consisted of 49 enlisted women and six officers.
She was the only NCO in the European Theater of Operations to receive the French Croix de Guerre medal.
Born 21 July 1913.
--GreGen
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