A Pictorial History Of Our Military Heritage > Motley Family Military Heritage > Major Lynn Motley Shadow Box

Our mother, Lynn Motley, enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (WACS) in 1942.  She immediately applied for Officer Candidate School (OCS) and became a Second Lieutenant.  She had a fascinating career working in the White House Crypto Office, as a courier between the War Department and the White House, serving in Austria for four years during the occupation from 1945-1949, and in Lord Louis Mountbatten's Headquarters in Ceylon.  She also spent a year studying Russian at the Army Language School in Monterrey, CA.  She ended her military career as a Major in 1954 to stay home and raise her family.