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'''Mattie Pinette''' (1903–1999) graduated from the [[University of Maine]] and worked as a secretary for the [[National Bureau of Standards]] and the [[Civil Aeronautics Administration (United States)|Civil Aeronautics Administration]] in [[Washington, DC]].

In 1942 she joined the [[Women's Army Corps (United States Army)]] (WAC) and was assigned to [[Allied Force Headquarters]] (AFHQ) in [[North Africa]]. On her way to Africa the British troop ship on which she was sailing, the Strathalan, was torpedoed by a German submarine. Pinette and several other WACs spent ten hours in a lifeboat before being rescued. At AFHQ Pinette worked for [[Robert McClure]], head of the psychological warfare office, and also assisted the U.S. delegation to the [[Casablanca Conference]]. She was later assigned to the personal staff of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and served as one of his secretaries in England.<ref>Kenneth S. Davis. Soldier ''of Democracy: A Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower''. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1945. p. 467</ref> She was present at his headquarters on [[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 (region)|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==
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==External links==
*[https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/Research/Finding_Aids/H.html] Papers of George Hall (Biographer of Mattie Pinnette), Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

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[[Category:1903 births]]
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[[Category:American women in politics]]
[[Category:United States Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:University of Maine alumni]]
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