Oral History of Leila Kikos, interviewed by Rebecca Michaud, 18 March, 2011
Title
Oral History of Leila Kikos, interviewed by Rebecca Michaud, 18 March, 2011
Subject
Description
Leila Kikos was born Leila Elizabeth Bailey on President St. in Charleston, SC in 1923. She graduated from Memminger High School in 1940, after which she studied drafting at The Citadel and worked at the shipyards and for the War Department as a switchboard operator on Meeting St. After the formation of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), Kikos consulted with her father and enlisted. She attended basic training at Hunter College in New York City. She was assigned to Washington, D.C. as a drafter. It was there that she met her husband Peter, a Marine studying bomb disposal at American University. After the war, she and her husband moved to Minneapolis briefly before returning to Charleston, where they operated a bakery.
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Source
Women in World War II
Publisher
The Citadel Archives & Museum
Date
Rights
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Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/179
Coverage
Colleton (S.C.)
Duration
38 minutes
Interviewer
Rebecca Michaud
Interviewee
Leila Kikos
Location
Round O, South Carolina
Collection
Citation
The Charleston Oral History Program at the Citadel, “Oral History of Leila Kikos, interviewed by Rebecca Michaud, 18 March, 2011,” The Citadel Archives Digital Collections, accessed May 4, 2024, https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/179.