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FLORENCE WICK - BRONZE STAR
3rd Infantry Division Clubmobile
Florence Wick is decorated with a Bronze Star on September 21, 1946 by 3rd Division officer Major Lewis C. Degooyer as Major General Paul W. Kendall of the 2nd Division looks on. She wears four service bars on her uniform indicating her service from April 1944 to the duration of the American Red Cross effort in Europe in 1946. The A.R.C. Clubmobile women workers and volunteers were not military but carried the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the case of capture to ensure treatment as an officer. They were not officially allowed to be decorated although several commanders honored them, usually with a Bronze Star for operation under enemy fire or in a war zone. The A.R.C. in its determination to distance their workers as non-combatants went so far as to ask the military to rescind these awards.
photo: courtesy Molly Martin/Florence Wick
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