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Title	[Aviation mechanics class at Norman, O.K., 1943]
Date	1943
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	Group photo of Mechanics Class 51, the first class of Women Marines to complete aviation mechanics school at Norman, Oklahoma" on 13 November 1943.
Veteran's name	Snyder, Phyllis Hinton
Veteran's biography	Phyllis Hinton Snyder (b. 1923) of North Canton, Ohio, served as an aviation machinist’s mate in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve from 1943 to 1945 . Phyllis Hinton Snyder was born on 15 February 1923 and grew up on a farm in North Canton, Ohio. She graduated from Middle Branch High School in 1940 and worked in war production for the Hoover Sweeper Company until 1943 . Snyder joined the Women Marines in May 1943. She completed basic training at Hunter College in New York and then went to aviation machinist’s mate school in Memphis, Tennessee, and Norman, Oklahoma. Snyder’s first station was in the headquarters squadron at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California. She met Bill Snyder on the train to California and they were married in November 1944. Phyllis Snyder left the Marines in 1945 and traveled with her husband to Marine Corps stations in the Mojave Desert; Santa Barbara, California; Hawaii; and Cherry Point, North Carolina. The couple had two daughters.
Place	Norman (Okla.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Posed military unit
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	WV0146 Phyllis Hinton Snyder 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	Wv0146.6.003
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	900811585

[Aviation mechanics class at Norman, O.K., 1943]

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