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Margaret Hastings, the “Shangri-La WAC”

Categories: History, NYS History, People

In this episode of A New York Minute in History podcast, co-hosts Devin and Lauren highlight a Pomeroy Foundation marker in New York State’s Tioga County and tell the story of Corporal Margaret Hastings, who was a member of the Women’s Army Corps who survived 47 days in a New Guinea jungle during World War II.