That same year, their paternal aunts, Virgie and Bertha Tucker, who had resided at their home in 1910, were two single women operating a boarding house in Pine Barren, Escambia County.

Per the Tuesday, March 2, 1943 edition of The Miami News, she completed her entrance examination at a local recruiting office, and "was sworn into the Women's Army Auxiliary corps Sunday after making the highest score, 141, in the mental alertness test of any applicant in this area.

[2][14] According to the Monuments Men Foundation website, while in Austria, "Tucker maintained offices in Vienna, Salzburg, and Linz," keeping "inventory records of the branch's art objects," and "investigat[ing] restitution claims within the jurisdiction of the U.S.

"[2] Described by McWhinnie as "the most outspoken female voice in post-World War II cultural history restoration," she "reported the missteps and mismanagement of her superiors and actively investigated the hushed subject of looting by American officers."

Her Final Status Report to the director of the USACA Section, Headquarters, United States Forces in Austria on February 16, 1949, detailed the significant number of art objects which had been relocated, against MFAA policy, to "officers' clubs and the personal offices of generals" and, contained this noteworthy commentary: It is a matter of regret to me that USACA did not attach enough importance to my handling of this delicate and explosive work, about which only I am familiar, to allow me to bring it to a successful conclusion.

Employed as a VISTA volunteer, she also worked for the New Mexico Office of Health and Social Services as a quality control specialist on a Navajo reservation.

[17] Nearly a half century after Tucker's Monuments Men tenure and two years after her death, a letter that she had written in January 1949 to U.S. State Department cultural affairs officer Ardelia Ripley Hall was brought to light by members of a presidential commission which was tasked with determining what had happened to valuables that had been stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims by Hermann Göring and other Nazi officials during World War II and were still missing.

[18] That letter by Tucker, which documented the post-World War II looting by U.S. Army officers of multiple items from former Nazi strongholds during the period of the MFAA's reorganization when Tucker's position had briefly been eliminated (July 1946–October 1947), was found in 1998 by members of that commission while searching through a collection of Hall's documents housed at the U.S. National Archives, and has since been used by attorneys and other investigators in locating and returning those missing valuables to (or obtaining other forms of restitution for), surviving family members of Holocaust victims, including by the attorneys who successfully negotiated a settlement in 2005 in the Hungarian Gold Train case which was brought against the U.S. government and heard in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.