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WAC 2nd Lt. Kline

                     
2nd Lieutenant
Louise R. Kline
Pontaic, Michigan
WAC, World War II

Here is a uniform belonging to Ms. Kline that is on exhibit at the Museum. The uniform is named to her and came with two scrapbooks filled with papers, pictures, cards and letters. This uniform will be in the Museum's " Women in Uniform" display. Ms. Kline was involved in the Civil Air patrol and was a war plant worker, before she turned in her CAP uniform for the uniform of a WAC. Ms. Kline took basic training at the 3rd WAC Training Center, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. She was an air operation specialist who's job was to clear planes for flight through briefing of weather, read meteoralogy reports, checked tower frequency to destination, called flight control for flight approval, checked fuel hours, kept log of inbound and out bound traffic. Ms Kline completed several hours in the air as observer, bombardier and navigator. Ms. Kline also logged many hours of dropping messages, and supplies by parachute.