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Mattie Pinnette
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In 1942 she joined the Women"s Army Corps (United States Army) (Women's Army Corps) and was assigned to Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ) in North Africa. On her way to Africa the British troop ship on which she was sailing, the Strathalan, was torpedoed by a German submarine. Pinette and several other WACs spent ten hours in a lifeboat before being rescued.
At AFHQ Pinette worked for Robert McClure, head of the psychological warfare office, and also assisted the United States. delegation to the Casablanca Conference.
She was present at his headquarters on Doctorate-Day and compiled a detailed account of the events surrounding the invasion. After the liberation of France, Pinette, who was fluent in French, was assigned to the staff of Major General John Taylor Lewis, who was head of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces) mission to the French government.
After the end of the war she traveled to Palestine and Greece with United States. diplomats to study local conditions. In 1946 she resigned from the Army and became a personnel officer at the United States Atomic Energy Commission, from which she retired in 1964.
In later years she was active in the American Association of University Women.
