Free A Marine To Fight Women Marines In World War Ii

Author : Mary V. Stremlow
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free a Marine to Fight written by Mary V. Stremlow and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marines in World War 2 Commemorative Series. Discusses how women Marines served in noncombat billets during World War 2. The title "Free a Marine to Fight" means that women Marines served in noncombat jobs so that male Marines could fight in battles. The Marines first began to recruit women after the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942. States that 17,672 women were serving in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in June 1945. Illustrated with many black and white photographs.

Author : Mary V. Stremlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free a Marine to Fight written by Mary V. Stremlow and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary V. Stremlow
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788135333
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free a Marine to Fight written by Mary V. Stremlow and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: early planning; the first Women's Reserve (WR); early training: Holyoke and Hunter; training: Camp Lejeune; Reserve Officer's Class; specialist schools; uniforms; style; officer Winter and Summer dress; Summer service; Summer dress; handbags, shoes, and hose; utilities and exercise suits; grooming, handkerchiefs, and undergarments; aviation; matching skills to need; WR employment; administration of women; assistants for the WR; authority; assignment and housing; punishment; overseas; WR Band; epilogue: war's end. Maps and photos.

Author : Col Mary V Stremlow Usmcr
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781482080261
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free a Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II written by Col Mary V Stremlow Usmcr and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the Marines in World War 2 Commemorative Series. This author examines the role of women serving in the USMC during World War II.

Author : Mary V. Stremlow
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494464318
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free a Marine to Fight written by Mary V. Stremlow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some stories sound too contrived to be true, yet are repeated too often to be dismissed as mere folklore. One such tale was rescued and restored to its rightful place in history when Mary Eddy Furman confirmed that, yes, the portrait of Archibald Henderson, 5th Commandant of the Marine Corps, crashed from the wall to the buffet the evening that Major General Commandant Thomas Holcomb announced his decision to recruit women into the Corps. Mrs. Furman, then a child, was a dinner guest at a bon voyage dinner party given for her father, Colonel William A. Eddy, and the Commandant's son, Marine Lieutenant Franklin Holcomb, on 12 October 1942 when the Commandant was asked, "General Holcomb, what do you think about having women in the Marine Corps?" Before he could reply, the painting of Archibald Henderson fell. We can only surmise how Archibald Henderson would have reacted to the notion of using women to relieve male Marines “for essential combat duty.” On the other hand, General Holcomb's opposition was well-known. He, as many other Marines, was not happy at the prospect. But, in the fall of 1942, faced with the losses suffered during the campaign for Guadalcanal - and potential future losses in upcoming operations - added to mounting manpower demands, he ran out of options. With 143,388 Marines on board and tasked by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to add 164,273 within a year, the Marine Corps had already lowered its recruiting standards and raised the age ceiling to 36. At the same time, President Roosevelt's plan to impose a draft threatened the elite image earned by the selective, hard­ fighting, disciplined Marines, and so, the Commandant did what he had to do. In furtherance of the war effort, he recommended that as many women as possible should be used in non­combatant billets. The idea was unpopular, but neither original nor unprecedented; women were already serving with the Army and in the Navy and Coast Guard Reserves. In fact, during World War I, 300 ''Marinettes" had freed male Marines from their desks and typewriters at Headquarters, Marine Corps, to go to France. This author examines the role of women serving in the USMC during World War II.

Author : Pat Meid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Corps Women's Reserve in World War II written by Pat Meid and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theresa Karas Yianilos
Publisher : LA Jolla Book Pubs
ISBN 13 : 9780962114243
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman Marine written by Theresa Karas Yianilos and published by LA Jolla Book Pubs. This book was released on 1994 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Moran
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526710471
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve written by Jim Moran and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little known story of these female reservists and the role they played in WWII, packed with photos. When US Marine Commandant Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb announced the formation of what became the US Marine Corps’ Women’s Reserve, legend has it, the portrait of one of his predecessors fell off the wall and crashed to the floor—in disbelief. The women were called “Lady Leathernecks,” among other nicknames—some less than flattering. This branch of the US Marines had been authorized by the US Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 30, 1942. The law allowed for the acceptance of women into the reserve as commissioned officers and at the enlisted level—effective for the duration of the war plus six months. The purpose of the law was to release officers and men for combat and to replace them with women in shore stations. The result was that between 1943 and 1945 the women of America enlisted in the thousands to “Free a Marine to Fight.” This book, the first of its kind, explores in detail the role of female Marines, or WRs as they were known at the time. It also presents a detailed study of the uniforms of the WRs supported by numerous photographs. This book has been written with the full support of the US Marine Corps Histories Division, the Women Marine Association, and surviving WR veterans.

Author : Ltc Pat Meid Usmcr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946411594
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Corps Women's Reserve in World War II written by Ltc Pat Meid Usmcr and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What? Women Marines? Quit your kidding " That was the first reaction of a group of Marines newly- freed from a prison camp in the Philippines in February 1945. Eagerly they sought news from the combat correspondents about what had been going on in the Marine Corps since their capture in the early days of the war. The released men could hardly believe it. Women in the Marine Corps? What did they do? How did they dress? What were they like? Were they pretty? Women in military uniform were a novelty to much of the rest of the world in the beginning of World War II, not only in this country, but in Canada and England as well. In the United States, more than 265,000 women served in all branches of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marines. The Marine Corps Women's Reserve (MCWR) was established by law as a part of the Marine Corps Reserve by the amendment of 30 July 1942 to the U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1938. The mission of the MCWR was to provide women trained and qualified for duty in the shore establishments of the Marine Corps, thereby releasing additional male Marines for combat duty. In February 1943, the month that the Women's Reserve was formed, American forces wiped out the final enemy opposition on Guadalcanal. . . .

Author : Linda Cates Lacy
Publisher : WE ARE MARINES
ISBN 13 : 9781599758879
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We are Marines! written by Linda Cates Lacy and published by WE ARE MARINES. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: