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Show . America In Action k LITTLE SISTER' AT THE FRONT WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN AFRICA. The WAC closest clos-est to the front perhaps is First Lieut. Sarah A. Bagby of New Haven, Ha-ven, Mo., confidential secretary to Lieut. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, commanding com-manding the Northwest African air forces. She accompanies the air force chief on all of his flying inspection trips, taking dictation and making notes en route. WACs consider that "the flying secretary" has one of the prize assignments of the girl soldiers. sol-diers. She probably has seen more war-blasted terrain than any other army girl, and she is well known in almost every airport in North Africa. Af-rica. Her Job as aide and confidential secretary to the general is one of the outstanding assignments handed hand-ed to the women soldiers and she is delighted with it She works by his side all day in a large villa which has been taken over as quarters and Lieutenant Bagby accompanies her boss, Lient. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, on all his inspection trips. offices for himself and his staff. She lives in a little French pension a short walk away. The only WAC In the city taken over by the air force command as headquarters, she is an object of continual excitement wherever she goes. And she is one of the prettiest pretti-est WACs to land in North Africa. "Little Sister" as her high-ranking brothers in the army call her, is the 11th member of her family to enter en-ter service. She went to war just a year ago when she was enrolled in St. Louis, Mo., where she had been secretary to the vice president of a breakfast food company. She is a graduate of the fifth officer candidate candi-date class at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and is 25. One of the strangest coincidents of war came to light recently when she walked into the arms of her "big brother," Col. Ralph Bagby, at Allied headquarters. Lieutenant Bagby has two brothers, broth-ers, both colonels, in the army and another brother a major. Two other oth-er high ranking naval officer brothers broth-ers are now dead. One nephew is an army major and another a lieutenant lieu-tenant senior grade in the navy. Another nephew, an army air corps cadet died in training but received his wings posthumously. Two other nephews trained the past year at Annapolis. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |