Title	[Women Marines at work, 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Marines--USMC Womens Reserve Marines--Women Marines
Item description	Six Marine Corps Women Reserves, including Margaret Helen "June" Crowel (4th from left), pose with mops and a mower during basic training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in summer 1945. The women wear olive-drab long-sleeved fatigue shirts, work overalls, white t-shirts, and daisy mae hats.
Veteran's name	Crowel, Margaret Helen
Veteran's biography	Margaret “June” Crowel of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, served in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve from May 1945 to 1979 . Margaret Helen “June” Crowel grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and graduated from high school there in 1943. She worked as a riveter in a Fisher Aircraft defense plant until she turned twenty in 1945 and could join the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve." Crowel attended basic training at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina in 1945. Her first assignment was doing clerical work at Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and she was billeted at Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia. Following the war she was retained by the Marine Corps to help process terminal leaves. In 1950, Crowel reenlisted and was transferred to El Toro, California, where she spent three years as the first sergeant of the detachment. From 1953 until 1958, Crowel was stationed at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. She then served as a drill instructor for three years at Parris Island, South Carolina . From 1961 to 1964, Crowel was stationed in the company office at Camp Lejeune. For the next three years, Crowel was the administrative chief of the battalion office in San Diego, California. In 1967, Crowel returned to Camp Lejeune for another three-year tour. She went back to San Diego from 1970 until 1973, and was later stationed in San Francisco, California. She retired from the Marine Corps as a sergeant while stated at Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina.
Place	Camp Lejeune (N.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	WV0137 Margaret Helen "June" Crowel Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0137.6.005
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	900811396

[Women Marines at work, 1945]

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