McCart Family Papers 1916-1968

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McCart Family Papers 1916-1968

2 boxes (1.17 cu. ft.), plus oversize folder

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6404069

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McCart, William H., b. 1898-

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McCart, Ethel W., 1891-1957.

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

McCart family

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Corporal Ethel W. Sly McCart was born in 1891 in Trinidad, Colorado. She was in the Marine Corps Reserve during World War I and rose to the rank of corporal on May 23, 1919. Stationed in Washington D.C. in the Adjutant and Inspector's Department, her travels as a corporal include Paris Island South Carolina, New York, Maryland and Quantico, Virginia. Ethel McCart was an illuminating diarist producing three diaries in the years 1935, 1936 and 1937. During the 1940s she was an aspirin...