Charlotte Cohen
MilitaryCharlotte Cohen enlisted in the Women's Army Corps in New York City. In 1940 she was working as a stenographer at New York University. Her sister Evelyn Cohen had enlisted in the WACs the year before. In 1940 both sisters lived with their father and mother, Isaac and Ida Cohen, on W204th Street. Both of their parents had been born in Russia.
Charlotte Cohen returned to New York from Bremerhaven, Germany on 6 December 1949.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Headquarters
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
New York State, USA | 13 May 1911 | |
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Enlisted |
New York, USA | 31 March 1943 | Two years of college Employment listed as 'Secretarial' Single, no dependents |
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Other Departed from Bremerhaven |
Bremerhaven, Germany | 27 November 1949 | Aboard US Army Transport "George W. Geothals" |
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Died |
Boca Raton, FL, USA | 6 February 2004 |
Revisions
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=5&cat=WR26&t…
Records available through Ancestry.com:
1930 census: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6224&h=3104162…
1940 census: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2442&h=1193639…
Passenger list from Bremerhaven, 6 December 1949:
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7488&h=3024981…
U.S. Social Security Death List: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=7260454…
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Source: History [of] the Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron [and] WAC Detachment, Eighth Air Force. Alden Press, 1945.