Joins Women's Army
Anna Lee Ripperton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ripperton of 2510 Oak street, Bettendorf, has been sworn into the WAC. She will leave December 28 for Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for her basic training. Miss Ripperton, who is a graduate of Maquoketa high school, is employed at the Victor Animatograph Co.
Source: The Daily Times, December 11, 1943 (photo included)
WAC RECRUITS -- Two young women from Davenport, one from Bettendorf and one from Calamus, were recruited into the WAC by the Davenport army recruiting office. Pictured above are (seated, left to right) Vera R. Fedderson, Calamus; Mildred Selinger, Brady street road, Davenport; and (standing) Marion Hentze, 1330 Mississippi avenue, Davenport, and Anna Lee Ripperton, 2510 Oak street, Bettendorf.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA, January 12, 1944 (group photo included)
The Girls Volunteered
Since there weren't any boys of draft age in Pfc. Anna Lee Ripperton's family, she and two other sisters have entered the service. Her eldest sister, Second Lt. Nadine Ripperton is in the army nurse corps and was stationed at Buckley field in Denver, Colo., prior to the time when she was placed in the army-navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.
Another sister, Pvt. Patricia Aileen Ripperton, is also in the corps doing cadre work in the company five regiment at Des Moines, Iowa, where Pfc. Anna Ripperton took her basic training which began on 'Pearl Harbor Day' 1943. Pfc. Ripperton is assistant supply clerk on the detachment here.
Source: The Hill Top Times, Hill Airforce Base Utah - February 1, 1945
Cpl. Anna Lee Ripperton, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lee Ripperton, 2510 oak street, Bettendorf, recently reenlisted in the WAC at Ft. Snelling, Minn.
Miss Ripperton enlisted in the air corps branch of the WAC Dec. 7, 1944 and was stationed at Hill field, Ogden, Utah, for two years, receiving her discharge at Camp Beale, Calif., last December. She will now be stationed at Camp Beale until transferred overseas for replacement duty.
Source: The Daily Times, May 25, 1946 (photo included)
