Roxie Remley a pioneer for women in uniform

Before becoming an art professor, she was a WAAC and then a WAC

Distinguished World War II veterans, left to right, Roxie Remley of the American WAC, Olive Schilling of the British ATS and Euel Akins of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, hold hands for a rare photo op at the Historical Society meeting.

W 3 WWII Vets — Distinguished World War II veterans, left to right, Roxie Remley of the American WAC, Olive Schilling of the British ATS and Euel Akins of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, hold hands for a rare photo op at the Historical Society meeting.

Before Roxie Remley was a force for the arts in Statesboro, she helped beat a path for women into the U.S. Army during World War II, becoming an officer and receiving some training classified top secret. Her experimental training may have been secret because it involved the use of radar when it was a closely guarded wartime technology. But the mission was also sensitive because it placed women in a potential combat role, she suggested during a January talk to the Bulloch County Historical Society.

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