[Interview of Eileen Jackson Crane on her service as a civilian U.S. State Department employee working at military bases in the U.S. and overseas from June 1943 to October 1946].
Eileen Jackson Crane talks about her service as a civilian U.S. State Department employee working at military bases in the U.S. and overseas from June 1943 to October 1946. She says that she served first as a Cafeteria Hostess and later as Command Hostess at the U.S. Air Force base in Wiesbaden, Ger...
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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 audio file (14 min., 7 sec.)) |
| Format: | Electronic Audio Software |
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Eileen Jackson Crane talks about her service as a civilian U.S. State Department employee working at military bases in the U.S. and overseas from June 1943 to October 1946. She says that she served first as a Cafeteria Hostess and later as Command Hostess at the U.S. Air Force base in Wiesbaden, Germany. She describes her duties as a hostess, her pay, base housing, medical care, being prohibited from eating in the cafeterias she ran, trying to manage appropriate levels of food inventory, life as a civilian working with the military, and being prohibited from fraternizing with the local German population. She also remembers being assigned to set up a segregated service club for African-American soldiers. Crane is interviewed by Neola Ann Spackman. |
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| Note: | Title supplied. Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project. Digitized by the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries. |
| Call Number: | Voice 33987 DB33987 cassette |
| Playing Time: | 00:14:07 |
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Interviewee, Eileen Jackson Crane ; interviewer, Neola Ann Spackman. |
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Recorded 1985 January 28 |