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About Charlotte Mansfield: A Woman Photographer Goes to War

The story of the pioneering military career of Charlotte Dee Mansfield, a photographer and photo analyst in the Women’s Army Corps. The film uses her personal writings, archival film resources, historian interviews and a conversation with Charlotte’s lifelong companion, Chief Master Sgt. Lorraine Caddy, to add context to Charlotte’s career and the legacy of women’s military service during WWII.

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