Title	[Portrait of Adelaide Murphy, circa 1944]
Date	1944
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	Portrait of Adelaide Murphy, circa 1944, in Marines' summer seersucker uniform with bell crown hat. Photo by Bradford Bachrach.
Veteran's name	Murphy, Adelaide Proctor Cotter
Veteran's biography	Adelaide Cotter Murphy (1921-2005) of Boston, Massachusetts, served in the Woman Marines as a pilot Link trainer from 1943 to 1945 . Adelaide Murphy was born 29 August 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Notre Dame Academy in 1939, and then attended nearby Lesley College for teacher training . Murphy joined the Woman Marines in early 1943 and was sent to Hunter College in New York for basic training. Following basic training, she was sent to Atlanta, Georgia, for LITIS (Link Instrument Training Instructors School). She was then stationed at Cherry Point, North Carolina, in mid-1943 to be a Link Trainer. She was transferred to nearby Bogue, North Carolina, and was in charge of the Link department. In 1944, Murphy was transferred to Vero Beach, Florida, to do more advanced Link training. She was discharged from the Marines in fall 1945 . Murphy married in November 1945 and stayed with her husband at Vero Beach until his discharge. They then moved to Asheville for a year, followed by Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1947. They had three children. Adelaide Murphy died on 29 May 2005.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0240 Adelaide Murphy 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. Photo by Bradford Bachrach.
Object ID	WV0240.6.002
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	900812635

[Portrait of Adelaide Murphy, circa 1944]

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