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[Women Marines summer uniform, circa 1950s]

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Title	[Women Marines summer uniform, circa 1950s]
Date	1955
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 Korean War, 1950-1953 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946) Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963) Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch	Marines--USMC Womens Reserve Marines--Women Marines
Item description	Green and white pinstriped summer uniform dress and jacket for Women Marines, designed by Mainbocher and introduced in 1952. The uniform is made of Dacron and nylon material with green piping around collar lapels, shoulder straps, and on sleeves of the jacket. The short-sleeved dress includes rank insignia on the sleeves indicating the the wearer, Mary Sabourin, was a gunnery sergeant at the time. Marine Corps insignia are pinned to both lapels on the jacket and dress. The uniform was worn with white, wrist-length gloves and a garrison cap.
Veteran's name	Sabourin, Mary Amanda
Veteran's biography	Mary Sabourin (1922-2008) of Ogdensburg, New York, served in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserves from 1945 to 1946 and in the Women Marines from 1949 until her retirement in 1976 . Mary Sabourin was born on 28 December 1922 in Ogdensburg, New York, and graduated from high school there in 1940. She worked at a drugstore before taking drawing and engineering courses. In 1943, she went to Syracuse, New York, to work in a defense plant as a draftswoman . In 1945, Sabourin enlisted in the Marines. She attended basic training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and then worked in the post exchange (PX) there from May 1945 to June 1946, when she was discharged. Sabourin attended a year of engineering school at Syracuse University, New York, on the GI Bill in the late 1940s . In 1949, Sabourin reenlisted in the Marine Corps and was stationed at the Marine Corps Institute in Washington, D.C." where she worked as a drafting instructor in the engineering department. In 1952, she was sent to administration school at Parris Island, South Carolina. From there, Sabourin was transferred to Cherry Point, North Carolina, where she worked in administration with a woman’s detachment and male squadron. In 1955 she returned to Parris Island for recruiter school. Upon completing the program she was sent to Baltimore, Maryland, to do recruiting. Three years later she was again sent to Parris Island, this time as a drill instructor. In 1961 she was transferred to El Toro, California, where she worked in classified files. Sabourin suffered a seizure in 1963 and was placed on disability . Sabourin returned to active duty in 1967 as a special correspondent at Headquarters Marine Corps in Arlington, Virginia. From 1969 to 1972, she served at the European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, in the Military Assistance Directorate. She returned to the States in 1972 and served at Headquarters Marine Corps as administrator for B Company, an officers company of 1,300 men. In 1975 she was transferred to Camp Lejeune, where she served as sergeant major for B Company. Sabourin retired from the Marines in 1976 . In 1991, Sabourin became involved in veteran’s organizations such as Women Marines Association. In 1999 she was Chairman of the National Committee for ROTC and the area director for six states. She was also involved in American Legion, Marine Corps League, and Fleet Reserve Association. Mary Sabourin died in 2008.
Type	image
Original format	textiles
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0100 Mary Sabourin Oral History and Uniform
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0100.8.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900817592

[Women Marines summer uniform, circa 1950s]

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