Oral history interview with Marian Swanberg, 2005.

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...

Henderson, Judy

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum

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Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006

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Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006) was an employee of the Associated Press in 1945 when he took this photograph of U. S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. He won the Pulitzer prize for it that same year. Rosenthal later worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, retiring in 1981. He made the photograph in this collection from his original negative in 1997 and gave it to fellow photojournalist David Hume Kennerly who donated it to the Briscoe Center. From the guide to the Joe Rosenthal Iwo Ji...

Buss, Kenton

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Garner, Jon,

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Garner served in the Marine Corps from 1968-1972 and was honorably discharged at the rank of captain. He received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University (Illinois) and a degree of marketing from Harvard Business School. He had a varied career in consumer marketing and worked for businesses such as Procter & Gamble (Ohio), Miller Brewing Company, Labatt Brewing Company, Heileman Brewing Company, DeanCare (Madison, Wisconsin), and a Madison water treatment co...

Dane County Transitional School (Wis.)

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Rotary Club of Madison (Wis.)

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Bowe, Andrew,

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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...

Swanberg, Marian

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Swanberg served in the Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945. She eventually married, raised a son and a daughter, owned a Scandinavian import shop in Washington, and moved to Wisconsin. From the description of Oral history interview with Marian Swanberg, 2005. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 668108934 ...