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Patricia Wilson

Patricia O'Neil Wilson

Interviewed 19 March 1991
Patricia O'Neil Wilson was born in Indianapolis in 1923. She joined the Army on January 9, 1943, with the WACs. After basic training she went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where she sold war bonds. In March 1944 she volunteered to go overseas. Her service took her to Australia, New Guinea, and Leyte. She was in Leyte when the war ended in 1945.