Margaret Helen (June) Crowel Collection
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Henderson Hall basketball team
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel (center) takes a shot for the Marine Corps Women's Reserve Headquarters basketball team during a game with the WAC team from Walter Reed Army Hospital at Henderson Hall, circa 1945.
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Henderson Hall softball team
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Group photo of the Marine Corps Women's Reserves Headquarters softball team at Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, circa 1946. Margaret Helen "June" Crowel stands in the back row on the far right.
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June Crowel receives an award
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel, in Marine Corps Women's Reserve winter uniform, receives an award at Henderson Hall circa 1946.
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June Crowel with service flag
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel, seated in her parents' backyard in Ohio after joining the Marine Corps Women's Reserves in 1945, displays their service flag with two stars - one each for herself and her brother.
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June Crowell and friend at Camp Lejeune
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel (on left) poses with a fellow Marine behind a barracks at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, during basic training in summer 1945. Both women wear olive-drab long-sleeved fatigue shirts over overalls with daisy mae hats.
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June Crowell on car
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Marine Margaret Helen "June" Crowel sits on the back of her car, a 1934 Plymouth that "made her popular at Henderson Hall" in Arlington, Virginia, where she was stationed from 1945 to 1950. She is wearing her green work uniform: a loose-fitting long-sleeved fatigue shirt and trousers and a green herringbone twill garrison cap.
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Oral history interview with Margaret (June) Crowel
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Chiefly documents Margaret "June" Crowel's experiences as a career member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1945 to 1979. Crowel discusses her pre-military service work making nacelles for B-29s or B-25s in a defense plant; her mother's reaction to her joining the Marines; male drill instructors; the war ending during her basic training and the celebrations; and her work processing soldiers for terminal leave at Marine Corps Headquarters after World War II ended. " Crowel also describes her intention to leave the Marines to be a mechanic; her decision and ability to reenlist in 1950; the acceptance and respect she received from male Marines; and her work and experiences at El Toro in the 1950s, including a confrontation with a Marine who angered her, dealing with the death of a friend and fellow Marine, and social life in the Marines, including the Women Marines Club. She also discusses supervising both men and women; changing opportunities for women in the military; her opinion of women in combat positions; Marine Corps songs; and her visit to the Women in Military Service to America (WIMSA) Memorial.
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Three Women Marines at El Toro USMC Base
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel (center) poses with two friends in front of a bus while stationed at El Toro USMC Base in Santa Ana, California, from 1950 to 1953. The women wear white short-sleeve summer uniforms and spruce green garrison caps.
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U.S. Marine Corps women's bowling team
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel (far right) and the other four members of the USMC women's bowling team pose for a photo at the 1971 WIBC tournament in Atlanta.
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Women Marines at work
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Six Marine Corps Women Reserves, including Margaret Helen "June" Crowel (4th from left), pose with mops and a mower during basic training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in summer 1945. The women wear olive-drab long-sleeved fatigue shirts, work overalls, white t-shirts, and daisy mae hats.
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Women Marines company at Henderson Hall
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel's U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve company at Henderson Hall, Arlington, Virginia, circa 1946. The women wear white short-sleeve summer uniforms and spruce green garrison caps.
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Women Marines in work uniform
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel poses with five fellow Marine Corps Women's Reserves during basic training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in summer 1945. Crowel, on right, wears a long-sleeve olive-drab fatigue shirt over her olive-drab overalls and white t-shirt, with a daisy mae fatigue hat.
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Women Marines marching at Parris Island
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Margaret Helen "June" Crowel's U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve company at Parris Island, South Carolina, marches in formation circa 1960. The Marines wear white short-sleeve summer uniforms and spruce green garrison caps.
