[Women Marines platoon, 1944]
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Title |
[Women Marines platoon, 1944] |
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Date |
1944 |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Marine Corps--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Marines--USMC Womens Reserve |
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Item description |
Group photo of the "simple six" members of Mary McLeod Roger's boot camp platoon at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in spring of 1944. Marines (standing left to right) Frances Stir, Jeanne Sincerbeaux, Mary McLeod, Rosemary Keeleher, Marcia Moore, and Anne Condon all wear the white short-sleeved summer uniform and spruce green garrison cap. |
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Veteran's name |
Rogers, Mary McLeod |
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Veteran's biography |
Mary McLeod Rogers (1921-2011) of Taylorsville, North Carolina, served in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve from April 1944 until February 1946 .
Mary McLeod Rogers was born 20 June 1921 and grew up in Taylorsville, North Carolina, and graduated from high school in 1937. She took a business course at Brevard College in Brevard, North Carolina, then got an apartment with her sisters in Charlotte, North Carolina. She worked at the Hardware Mutual Fire Insurance Company for five years .
Rogers joined the Women Marines in February 1944 and in April was sent to basic training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. She completed boot camp in the summer with a second class after recovering from a broken knee in the Naval Hospital, and remained at Lejeune for Paymasters’ School. In the fall Rogers was sent to Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, where she audited payrolls in the Navy Annex. She was discharged in February 1946, but continued in the same job as a civilian for a few months .
When Rogers returned to Charlotte, she worked for Motors Insurance Corporation and married J.B. Johnson in 1949. They had three children and lived in Whiteville, North Carolina, and later in Mullins, South Carolina. Rogers also worked for an accountant and in the family business. After the death of her first husband, she moved back to Taylorsville and remarried. She later moved to Mullins, South Carolina, where she died 10 November, 2011. |
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Place |
Camp Lejeune (N.C.) |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Image type |
Full uniform |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0134 Mary McLeod Rogers Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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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. |
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Object ID |
WV0134.6.004 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
900811435 |
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