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Title	[Women Marines in front of Capitol building, circa 1943]
Date	1943
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Marines--USMC Womens Reserve
Item description	Three Marine Corps Women Reserves, all in winter service uniform with handbags, pose in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., circa 1943.
Veteran's name	Wiglesworth, Nina Johnson
Veteran's biography	Nina Johnson Wiglesworth, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve from October 1943 to 1945 . Nina Johnson Wiglesworth was born in Reidsville, North Carolina, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from Hugh Morson High School in 1941 and then worked as a civil servant for the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C., until joining the Women Marines in October 1943. Wiglesworth completed basic training was at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where she also attended Quartermaster School. After training, she stayed at Camp Lejeune in the shipping and receiving department . Nina Wiglesworth married Ernest Wiglesworth in November 1945. They had six children, two of whom served in the military. They lived in Texas and Virginia until Ernest left the Marines and then settled in North Carolina after two years on a farm in Kentucky.
Place	Washington (D.C.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
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	WV0132 Nina Johnson Wiglesworth Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0132.6.011
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	900810925

[Women Marines in front of Capitol building, circa 1943]

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