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STAR SPANGLED GIRLS  |  75 minutes

Compiled and Adapted by Brenda P. Schleunes Commissioned by the Women Veteran’s Historical Collection at UNC Greensboro’s Jackson Library, Memories and Music from WWII

Star Spangled Girls is drawn from the memoirs and letters of thirty-seven women veterans.  The play presents these venerable women as they share memories of events and emotions about enlistment, basic training, service at home and abroad, love, and segregation in the military. The cast includes five actresses as they portray WACs, WAVES, Army Nurses and Red Cross Volunteers.

“When I was issued my helmet and gas mask I knew that this was it. I was going to war!”
                                                   – Red Cross Volunteer

“We learned to dig foxholes. We learned how to go through a gas chamber. We learned how to wash our hair and heat soup i n our helmets. We learned how to set up an operating room by sewing together two sheets to line a tent so that the dirt wouldn’t fall onto the operating table. This was basic training for overseas.”
                                                   – Army Nurse

“We were what they called a communications group. We had telephone operators, teletype operators, radio girls and secretaries. They told us, 'You’re going to the second most bombed place in England.'  And, can you believe, we cheered?  It was Norwich.”
                                                    – WAC