Mattie Pinette
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Mattie Pinette (1903–1999) graduated from the
Washington, DC
.
In 1942 she joined the
D-Day and compiled a detailed account of the events surrounding the invasion. After the liberation of France, Pinette, who was fluent in French, was assigned to the staff of Major General John Taylor Lewis, who was head of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
(SHAEF) mission to the French government.
After the end of the war she traveled to Palestine and Greece with U.S. diplomats to study local conditions. In 1946 she resigned from the Army and became a personnel officer at the United States Atomic Energy Commission, from which she retired in 1964. In later years she was active in the American Association of University Women.
References
- ^ Kenneth S. Davis. Soldier of Democracy: A Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1945. p. 467
External links
- [1] Papers of George Hall (Biographer of Mattie Pinnette), Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library