[Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-Shek) greeting Technical Sergeant Mary A. Higgins]
Title
Description
Photograph of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-Shek) greeting Technical Sergeant Mary A. Higgins, Women's Army Corps (WAC), during a gathering at their summer home in Chongqing, China, circa 1940s.
Typed on verso: "Hq. Army Air Forces, China Theater -- T/Sgt. Mary A. Higgins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Higgins, [address in Brooklyn, New York], received one of the big thrills of her service in China when Wacs of Lt. General George E. Stratemeyer's Headquarters Army Air Forces recently were entertained at a tea in the home of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking. Sg.t [sic] Higgins is being greeted by Generalissimo and his wife. Held in the reception room of their summer home in China's wartime capital, the Chiang Kai-Shek tea was attended by over sixty Wacs. (USAAF Photo)."