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La boricua que mandaba códigos entre Eisenhower y el frente
Carmen Contreras-Bozak served in the Women's Army Corps and Signal Corps, sending and receiving coded messages between Eisenhower's Algiers headquarters and the battlefield in Tunisia.
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- VA News identifies Carmen Contreras-Bozak as an Army Veteran and says she was the first Puerto Rican woman to join the Women's Army Corps.
- VA News says she served in the Signal Corps and sent and received coded messages between Eisenhower's Algiers headquarters and the battlefield in Tunisia.
- USO and VOCES reinforce the WAC, Signal Corps, language, teletype, and Puerto Rican World War II service context.