Charlotte Plummer Owen Audio Collection. 1944 - 1944. U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve Band Sound Recordings
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United States. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
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The United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve was the World War II women's branch of the United States Marine Corps Reserve. It was authorized by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 30 July 1942. Its purpose was to release officers and men for combat, and to replace them with women in U.S. shore stations for the duration of the war plus six months. Ruth Cheney Streeter was appointed the first director. The Reserve did not accept African American or Japane...
Owen, Charlotte Plummer, 1918-2004
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Director of the U.S. Women's Marine Band, 1944-1945; later director of the Ann Arbor Summer Civic Band. From the description of Charlotte Plummer Owen scrapbook, 1993-2005. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 317495453 Charlotte Plummer Owen (1918-2004), championship clarinetist and Marine Corps Band conductor, was actively involved in teaching, performing and conducting for over 65 years. She graduated from Eugene High School in 1935 where she captured one of the ...
