![]() Marine Corps Women’s Reserve Detachment, Depot Of Supplies, San Francisco, Californiaįriday.another week is almost over. Marine Training Detachment, Radio Materiel School, Omaha, Nebraska ![]() Naval Training School, (Radio), Miani University, Oxford, Ohio. Sylvia enlisted in the Marine Corps on 3 March 1943 and was sent to Hunter College 20 April 1943 Name:Ĭo “E”, Martrdet, Usnts (Wr), The Bronx, New York She made it clear to her children that she wanted her service engraved on her bronze cemetery marker and have a flag draped casket. The picture of the three women saluting, shows my mother in the middle, her sister on the left (she was a WAVE), and her aunt (also a WAVE?) on the right.īeing a Marine for the “duration” was something she was proud of her entire life. She is the second woman on the left in the picture. ![]() The photo below was actually a publicity shot taken when she arrived in Hawaii. To my knowledge, she was among the first group of women Marines to arrive there. of what I went through in world war 1 in Flanders field, only this is a lot. My mother was from Philadelphia, stationed in San Diego and then sent to Pearl Harbor where she was in the radio corps. Duane Enderson, USN, who was here for a ten day visit, left Monday for San.
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