Phyllis Hinton Snyder Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Most of this collection has been digitized. Some items have not beed digitized due to copyright or other logistical issues.
What's in the full collection?: 10 February 2000 oral history transcript; photographs of Phyllis graduating with the first class of Women Marines to complete aviation mechanics school at Norman; Oklahoma 1943; photographs of Phyllis working on planes with fellow Marines; photograph of Phyllis on her wedding day, 1944.
Full biography: Phyllis Hinton Snyder (1923-2017) of North Canton, Ohio, served as an aviation machinist's mate in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve from 1943 to 1945. Phyllis Hinton Snyder was born on 15 February 1923 and grew up on a farm in North Canton, Ohio. She graduated from Middle Branch High School in 1940 and worked in war production for the Hoover Sweeper Company until 1943. Snyder joined the Women Marines in May 1943. She completed basic training at Hunter College in New York and then went to aviation machinist's mate school in Memphis, Tennessee, and Norman, Oklahoma. Snyder's first station was in the headquarters squadron at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California. She met Bill Snyder on the train to California and they were married in November 1944. Phyllis Snyder left the Marines in 1945 and traveled with her husband to Marine Corps stations in the Mojave Desert; Santa Barbara, California; Hawaii; and Cherry Point, North Carolina. The couple had two daughters.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Marines -- USMC Womens Reserve
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Marine Corps--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Aviation mechanics class at Norman, O.K.; Group photo of Mechanics Class 51, the first class of Women Marines to complete aviation mechanics school at Norman, Oklahoma," on 13 November 1943.

: Oral history interview with Phyllis Hinton Snyder; Primarily documents Phyllis Hinton Snyder's childhood in Ohio in the 1930s; her service with the Marine Corps Women's Reserve from 1943 to 1945; and her life after World War II. Snyder discusses growing up in Ohio. She details helping out on the farm; the Depression; her brother's death in a car accident; her enjoyment of school; and disliking her job at the Hoover Sweeper Company. " Topics related to World War II and the Women Marines include the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; a rough drill instructor; working with airplanes; working with male machinists; duties as a machinist; social life, including the service club and movies; meeting and dating Bill Snyder; military regulations concerning marriage; Bill Snyder's experiences overseas; and advantages of her military service, including broader experiences and greater confidence and independence. " Snyder also talks about traveling with her husband; getting over her shyness; her son-in-law who was killed on a peace envoy in Sarajevo, Bosnia; and her opinion of women in combat.

: Phyllis Snyder and other Women Marines working on airplane tail repair; Phyllis Hinton Snyder (top left) and three other Women Marines, all in work trousers and shirts, repair the tail of an airplane at Norman, Oklahoma, circa late 1943.

: Wedding of Phyllis H. and Bill Snyder; Wedding photo of Phyllis Hinton Snyder and Bill Snyder in November 1944. Every pictured in the wedding party is a Marine, including the bride and groom.

: Women Mairnes learn airplane wheel assembly; Three Marine Corps Women's Reserves, including Phyllis H. Snyder (2nd from left), work on airplane wheel assembly at Norman, Oklahoma, while a male sailor looks on, circa 1943. The Women Marines wear green work trousers and shirts.

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