Col. US Army
World War II, Korea, Vietnam
Information provided by Marie C Karban in an email dated February 14 2011.
COL Judith C. Bennett (US Army Ret) went to be with the Lord December 28, 2010. She is survived by her nephew Louis P Elliott of Corsicana, Texas. She is preceded in death by her husband George H. Bennett. Graveside services were held 5 Jan 2011 at Ft Sam Houston National cemetery with full military honors. A memorial service was held 5 Jan 2011 at the Army Residence Community Chapel.
COL Bennett was born in Corsicana Texas, in 1920 and was a graduate of the University of Texas. She had been teacher, but left to follow her husband, an AAF pilot, to California. He was killed in an aviation accident early in 1942. She and her sister, Grace Polk, both enlisted for the WAAC OCS in the summer of 1942. Judy was in OCS class #2 and Grace was in class #3 at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. They were the first sisters to become WAAC officers.
In late 1944, Judy was assigned as the detachment commander for the WACS at Finschhafen, New Guinea: from where the detachment moved to the Philippines in mid 1945. She left active duty in early 1946 and was studying at the University of Alabama on the GI bill when she was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. She was in the first WAC Officer advanced class and the first WAC officer assigned to what then was STRIKE command at McDill AFB, FL. As a LTC she was the second WAC advisor to the Vietnamese Women's Armed Forces and was the WAC staff advisor to the US Army, Pacific.
There were few women assigned in country in Vietnam, WACS served as stenographers in Saigon or advisors to the Vietnamese WAC. While serving in Vietnam, Judy packed a tiny .38 pistol in her belt whenever she left Saigon and she has run into her share of trouble.
An article from Newsweek in 1966 said that on one flight into Quang Ngai Province in a Caribou transport loaded with ammunition, her plane was riddled by Viet Cong ground fire and was hit five times. Judy said, those Caribous can take it. The article caused considerable consternation among WAC leaders at the time because polices strictly forbade WAC's from carrying weapons/fire arms.
COL Bennett retired from the Army in the summer of 1971.
World War II, Korea, Vietnam
Information provided by Marie C Karban in an email dated February 14 2011.
COL Judith C. Bennett (US Army Ret) went to be with the Lord December 28, 2010. She is survived by her nephew Louis P Elliott of Corsicana, Texas. She is preceded in death by her husband George H. Bennett. Graveside services were held 5 Jan 2011 at Ft Sam Houston National cemetery with full military honors. A memorial service was held 5 Jan 2011 at the Army Residence Community Chapel.
COL Bennett was born in Corsicana Texas, in 1920 and was a graduate of the University of Texas. She had been teacher, but left to follow her husband, an AAF pilot, to California. He was killed in an aviation accident early in 1942. She and her sister, Grace Polk, both enlisted for the WAAC OCS in the summer of 1942. Judy was in OCS class #2 and Grace was in class #3 at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. They were the first sisters to become WAAC officers.
In late 1944, Judy was assigned as the detachment commander for the WACS at Finschhafen, New Guinea: from where the detachment moved to the Philippines in mid 1945. She left active duty in early 1946 and was studying at the University of Alabama on the GI bill when she was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. She was in the first WAC Officer advanced class and the first WAC officer assigned to what then was STRIKE command at McDill AFB, FL. As a LTC she was the second WAC advisor to the Vietnamese Women's Armed Forces and was the WAC staff advisor to the US Army, Pacific.
There were few women assigned in country in Vietnam, WACS served as stenographers in Saigon or advisors to the Vietnamese WAC. While serving in Vietnam, Judy packed a tiny .38 pistol in her belt whenever she left Saigon and she has run into her share of trouble.
An article from Newsweek in 1966 said that on one flight into Quang Ngai Province in a Caribou transport loaded with ammunition, her plane was riddled by Viet Cong ground fire and was hit five times. Judy said, those Caribous can take it. The article caused considerable consternation among WAC leaders at the time because polices strictly forbade WAC's from carrying weapons/fire arms.
COL Bennett retired from the Army in the summer of 1971.
Col. US Army
World War II, Korea, Vietnam
Information provided by Marie C Karban in an email dated February 14 2011.
COL Judith C. Bennett (US Army Ret) went to be with the Lord December 28, 2010. She is survived by her nephew Louis P Elliott of Corsicana, Texas. She is preceded in death by her husband George H. Bennett. Graveside services were held 5 Jan 2011 at Ft Sam Houston National cemetery with full military honors. A memorial service was held 5 Jan 2011 at the Army Residence Community Chapel.
COL Bennett was born in Corsicana Texas, in 1920 and was a graduate of the University of Texas. She had been teacher, but left to follow her husband, an AAF pilot, to California. He was killed in an aviation accident early in 1942. She and her sister, Grace Polk, both enlisted for the WAAC OCS in the summer of 1942. Judy was in OCS class #2 and Grace was in class #3 at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. They were the first sisters to become WAAC officers.
In late 1944, Judy was assigned as the detachment commander for the WACS at Finschhafen, New Guinea: from where the detachment moved to the Philippines in mid 1945. She left active duty in early 1946 and was studying at the University of Alabama on the GI bill when she was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. She was in the first WAC Officer advanced class and the first WAC officer assigned to what then was STRIKE command at McDill AFB, FL. As a LTC she was the second WAC advisor to the Vietnamese Women's Armed Forces and was the WAC staff advisor to the US Army, Pacific.
There were few women assigned in country in Vietnam, WACS served as stenographers in Saigon or advisors to the Vietnamese WAC. While serving in Vietnam, Judy packed a tiny .38 pistol in her belt whenever she left Saigon and she has run into her share of trouble.
An article from Newsweek in 1966 said that on one flight into Quang Ngai Province in a Caribou transport loaded with ammunition, her plane was riddled by Viet Cong ground fire and was hit five times. Judy said, those Caribous can take it. The article caused considerable consternation among WAC leaders at the time because polices strictly forbade WAC's from carrying weapons/fire arms.
COL Bennett retired from the Army in the summer of 1971.
World War II, Korea, Vietnam
Information provided by Marie C Karban in an email dated February 14 2011.
COL Judith C. Bennett (US Army Ret) went to be with the Lord December 28, 2010. She is survived by her nephew Louis P Elliott of Corsicana, Texas. She is preceded in death by her husband George H. Bennett. Graveside services were held 5 Jan 2011 at Ft Sam Houston National cemetery with full military honors. A memorial service was held 5 Jan 2011 at the Army Residence Community Chapel.
COL Bennett was born in Corsicana Texas, in 1920 and was a graduate of the University of Texas. She had been teacher, but left to follow her husband, an AAF pilot, to California. He was killed in an aviation accident early in 1942. She and her sister, Grace Polk, both enlisted for the WAAC OCS in the summer of 1942. Judy was in OCS class #2 and Grace was in class #3 at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. They were the first sisters to become WAAC officers.
In late 1944, Judy was assigned as the detachment commander for the WACS at Finschhafen, New Guinea: from where the detachment moved to the Philippines in mid 1945. She left active duty in early 1946 and was studying at the University of Alabama on the GI bill when she was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. She was in the first WAC Officer advanced class and the first WAC officer assigned to what then was STRIKE command at McDill AFB, FL. As a LTC she was the second WAC advisor to the Vietnamese Women's Armed Forces and was the WAC staff advisor to the US Army, Pacific.
There were few women assigned in country in Vietnam, WACS served as stenographers in Saigon or advisors to the Vietnamese WAC. While serving in Vietnam, Judy packed a tiny .38 pistol in her belt whenever she left Saigon and she has run into her share of trouble.
An article from Newsweek in 1966 said that on one flight into Quang Ngai Province in a Caribou transport loaded with ammunition, her plane was riddled by Viet Cong ground fire and was hit five times. Judy said, those Caribous can take it. The article caused considerable consternation among WAC leaders at the time because polices strictly forbade WAC's from carrying weapons/fire arms.
COL Bennett retired from the Army in the summer of 1971.
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