Margaret M. Henderson Papers, 1943-1996 and undated
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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...
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Margaret M. Henderson was born in Cameron, Texas on February 6, 1911. After receiving a degree in business administration from the University of Texas in 1932, she taught in Lubbock, Texas until 1942. In 1943, she enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Henderson completed Reserve Officer Training and began her career in the military as a second lieutenant. She served from 1943 to 1946 and then temporarily resigned from active duty to teach at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech Univ...
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The Committee was organized in 1951 to assist the Department of Defense on matters relating to women in the Armed Services. From the description of Records, 1951-1959 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006904 ...
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...
