Women's Air Corps Corporal Lirl Treuter and cat

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20026437

Description

WAC Corp. Lirl Treuter returned Wednesday from 14 months duty with the Far East Air Force and so did Sayrah Haba-Haba Feaf. Haba-Haba is the G.I. term for "hooray" and Feaf means "Far Eastern Air Force" is a cat of dubious but suspected Chinese origin, picked up as a kitten by Corporal Treuter in New Guinea. Wherever the WAC went, so did Sayrah. that included Diak, Pelileu, Leyte, and finally Manila. In the picture you can see Corp. Treuter wearing her Air Corps uniform and she is carrying the black cat, and the cat is wearing vest. There is a fireplace in the background, and some paintings are hanging in the wall.

Archival Date

1945-11-28

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-369

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Far East Air Force; Cats