Women Marines Learn Artificial Respiration
The girls in boot camp at New River, North Carolina, who at the completion of their six weeks training period
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Last Group of Marine Recruits at Camp Lejeune
Last group of women marine recruits to train at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, during World War II. Military bearing and
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Two SPARS Pause on Ladder of USS Neversail
Two African-American SPARS – Aileen Cooke and Olivia Hooker – pause on the ladder of the dry-land ship U.S.S. Neversail
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New Marine Recruits Eating Chow at Camp Lejeune
Chow is the first thing on the schedule for these hungry Marine Corps Women Reserves after detraining, at Camp Lejeune,
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First Marine “Boots” Arrive at Camp Lejeune
The women Marines had everything well in hand when the new recruits arrived at Camp Lejeune, New River, N.C. to
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Marine Recruits Taking Out the Trash
Privates Dorothy Pierson of Charlemont, Massachusetts, Catherine Gleason of Woodside, Long Island, New York, and Helen Nowacin of Buffalo, New
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Marine Corporal Distributes Bed Linens to New “Boots”
Corporal Virginia E. Coward of Chicago, Illinois, distributes bed linens to a group of new “boots” at Camp Lejeune, New
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Marine Corps Drill Instructor Looks Over New Recruits
In the Marine Corps, the DI (Drill Instructor) has the toughest job of them all – converting a civilian into
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