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Title
[Informal
photograph
of
Marian
"
Mac
"
McBurney
Kilgore
and
other
WAVES
members
,
1943]
Date
1943
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Informal
photograph
of
Marian
"
Mac
"
McBurney
Kilgore
and
other
WAVES
members
attired
in
various
uniforms
.
Three
are in
service
dress
blue
"
Bs
with
cap
,
Kilgore
is
in
service
dress
blues
with
slacks
and
without
cap
or
tie
,
one
is
in an
unidentified
white
outfit
,
one
is
wearing
uniform
slacks
and a
white
shirt
with "
WAVES
"
printed
on
it
.
Memphis
,
Tennessee
,
1943
.
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
.
Place
Memphis
(Tenn.)
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Full uniform
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
WV0387.6.032
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
900813964
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