Beulah Duncan World War II Interview

Beulah Duncan World War II Interview

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.

United States -- History, Military.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States.

Beulah Duncan served in the United States Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, SPARS. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston in 2003, as part of the Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project, Duncan talked about her experiences during the Second World War. Duncan was born in New Mexico. She received a degree in education from the University of Kansas and became a teacher. Once the United States entered the war in 1941, she joined the SPARS and went to Officer Candidate School at Smith’s College in Massachusetts. She then worked as a coder at the Coast Guard’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. She was later assigned to work in Miami, Florida. Duncan does not state her years of service.

Duncan, Beulah

Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project

Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.)

2003

Johnston, Pattie

Kansas State Historical Society

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MP4

eng

Oral History

Duncan, WWII Interview

Washington (D.C.)

1941 - 1945

Johnston, Pattie

Duncan, Beulah

Lawrence (KS)

VHS

0:43:06

317 kbit/s (audio)

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