In New York, Bozak attended Julia Richman High School and after she graduated, she went to work for the National Youth Administration.

Bozak worked for the War Department in Washington, D.C. as a payroll clerk after taking and passing a Civil Service test.

"[2] During this period, the Army was looking for bilingual Hispanic women to fill assignments in fields such as cryptology, communications and interpretation.

Bozak volunteered to be part of the 149th WAAC Post Headquarters Company the first to go overseas, setting sail from New York Harbor for Europe in January 1943.

[2] The unit arrived in Northern Africa on January 27, 1943, and rendered overseas duties in Algiers, in General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s theatre headquarters.

[2] After returning home, she entered Valley Forge General Hospital in July 1945, for treatment of an eye infection which she had contracted in Algiers.