Frankly, Brady is a force unto herself.a jewel, amazingly adept, feeling, and focused WAC. Having graduated from Smith College, one of the elite seven sister colleges, she nevertheless seamlessly blends, mixes, and downplays her clearly intellectual expertise. She hales from southern California and a rather wealthy family. She is pursued by both men and women, but she pursues CJ. However, she unpretentiously presents herself to all the good folks at Fort Bliss as a stunningly beautiful, charismatic woman, and extremely proficient writer. Fantastically entrancing!īrady Buchanan is an intellectually insightful and perceptively curious journalist stationed on the same base as CJ. A tall and slender woman with a tremendous heart and the stuff that heroes, legends, and pioneers are made of. I, along with her, went through all the changes, trials and tribulations, plus some scintillatingly intense personal growth. Aw right! Most of the story is seen through her eyes and her evolution is impressively unraveled. Additionally, she is trained and assigned to work on airplane engines. Another characteristic that separates her from three quarters of the female population. She was raised on a farm in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and loved getting her hands dirty.

She has two older brothers active in completely different war zones.

Right off the bat I realized she is unarguably exceptional and unusual for this time. She postponed her graduate school work in history at the University of North Carolina to support the war effort by enlisting in the WACS. Splendidly eye-opening!ĬJ, Caroline Jamieson, really captures my fancy. I was thoroughly engaged by the extraordinary layers and levels that are presented. Now that doesn't normally include military history for me, however, this book looks at women in the WACS and WAVES during the middle of World War 2, providing an up-front and personal sense of the life female military and supporting nonmilitary women lived through. This book is a definite treat, but more so since I am a history buff. Not one to question orders, she’s not sure how her skills in airplane engine maintenance will be of use in this desolate region.īut when CJ meets fellow WAC enlistee Brady Buchanan, Fort Bliss might live up to its name. Instead of the California post she anticipated, west Texas cacti and an artillery training base are the unexpected sights on her new horizons.

The Army, however, has derailed her plans. Along with her new WAC friends, she is ready to do her part to help boys like her brothers, fighting in the European and Pacific theaters, make it home sooner. Caroline “CJ” Jamieson gave up studying history and joined the Women’s Army Corps to live it instead.

In the company of women kate christie