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Title	[WAVES members opening Christmas gifts, 1944]
Date	1944
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	WAVES members opening Christmas gifts in the WAVES mechanic ready room. Muriel Shearer is third from left . Caption reads:"Merry Christmas! Jimmy, Mac [?], Muriel and Jeanette"
Veteran's name	Kilgore, Marian Mac McBurney
Veteran's biography	Marian I. “Mac” McBurney Kilgore (1916-1999) served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) as an aviation machinist during World War II . Marian I. “Mac” McBurney Kilgore born in 1916 and raised in Washington, Pennsylvania. She worked as an elementary school teacher before enlisting in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service)in March 1943." She did her basic training at U.S. Naval Training Station on the Bronx campus of Hunter College in New York. She was then sent to the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Memphis, Tennessee to be trained to as an aviation mechanist. Kilgore was then stationed at Anacostia Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. where she was one of the first women to be assigned as an aviation mechanist." In addition to performing maintenance on navy airplanes, she was also a member of a singing trio of female airline mechanics who called themselves <emph>The Merrie Mechs</emph>.” They performed at other Naval Air Stations and Naval Hospitals." Kilgore met George Linson Kilgore , another airline mechanic at Anacostia, and married him in 1946. They lived in Rockville, Maryland and raised three children. Kilgore died in 1999.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0387 Marian "Mac" McBurney Kilgore Scrapbook
Collection summary	This scrapbook entitled Navy Days at Anacostia contains photographs documenting Kilgore's service in the WAVES.
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	WV0387.6.022
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	900814019

[WAVES members opening Christmas gifts, 1944]

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