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Title	[Portrait of Barbara Gove, circa 1954]
Date	1954
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Marines--Women Marines
Item description	Portrait of U.S. Marine Barbara Gove, circa 1954.
Veteran's name	Gove, Barbara Evelyn
Veteran's biography	Barbara E. Gove (1935-2011), of Woburn, Massachusetts, served in the Women Marines from 1954 to 1955 . Barbara E. Gove was born on 26 November 1935 in Malden, Massachusetts, and grew up in nearby Woburn. When she was thirteen years old, she joined the Civil Air Patrol and practiced flying in a Link Trainer. Gove graduated from Woburn High School in 1953 and then attended a few months of nurses’ training . Gove joined the Women Marines in 1954. She went to boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, in April and then had more training at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Jacksonville, Florida. Gove also attended parachute rigger school in Lakehurst, New Jersey. She was then sent to Naval Air Depot Cherry Point, North Carolina, to do linotype. Gove had several negative experiences at Cherry Point, and when she asked for a transfer in 1955, she was discharged instead . After a short stay in the Veterans Administration mental hospital in Brocton, Massachusetts, in 1955, Gove held several jobs. She worked in engineering and electronics in New England and California, for such companies as Browning Manufacturing, Anelex, Gray Manufacturing, Stromberg Data-graphics, General Dynamics, and Wave Tech. In 1978, she moved to Florida to take care of her mother. Gove started a veterans group, The William L. Gove Senior Veterans, in 1980, and has also been an officer in the Marine Corps League and the Disabled American Veterans. Gove passed away in January 2011.
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	WV0152 Barbara E. Gove Papers
Collection summary	The collection includes a 2000 oral history interview, photographs, and biographical materials.
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	WV0152.6.001
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	900811731

[Portrait of Barbara Gove, circa 1954]

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