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  • Charity Adams Earley
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  • Charity Edna Adams Earley was the first African American woman to be an officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later WACS) and was the commanding officer of the first battalion of African American women to serve overseas during WWII.
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serviceyears
  • 1942
Birth Date
  • 1918-12-05
Commands
  • 6888
death place
  • Dayton, Ohio
Name
  • Charity Edna Adams Earley
Birth Place
  • Kittrell, North Carolina
death date
  • 2002-01-13
Rank
  • Lieutenant Colonel
laterwork
  • educator
abstract
  • Charity Edna Adams Earley was the first African American woman to be an officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later WACS) and was the commanding officer of the first battalion of African American women to serve overseas during WWII.