WWII USMC Women's Grouping
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WWII USMC Women's Grouping
Hi All,
I thought I would share with you these recently acquired USMC Women’s Reserve uniforms. These were donated to the thrift shop I volunteer at.
All are named to the same women:
Name - Nancy Simons
SN – 48879
Through some digging on Ancestry, I was able to find the following article dated July 7th, 1947 from the Pottstown Mercury (Pottstown, PA). Being as our shop is in PA, I’m fairly certain the Nancy Simons in this article is the same Nancy Simons these uniforms belonged to.The article is announcing Nancy’s engagement to Elihu Spencer Miller however in addition to this, it mentions that she served with the USMCWR for 29 months.
From this article, I was able to find out additional information on her through Ancestry:
DOB – 4/16/1922 (Northumberland, PA)
DOD – 4/17/2001 (Roaring Gap, NC)
No other information related to her service, so next step is to send away to NARA.
For more information on the USMCWR as well as other WWII women's military organizations and all of the hard work they did on the home front (although I'm sure similar to today, many women would have preferred to be overseas with the boys), here is a great site with lot's of references:
Blitzkrieg Baby
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Re: WWII USMC Women's Grouping
That's all for now! I'll be sure to update the thread when I receive Nancy's service record. Thanks for looking!
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Re: WWII USMC Women's Grouping
Nice uniform, These are hard to come by.
Burt
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Re: WWII USMC Women's Grouping
Thanks, Burt! You can imagine my surprise when I stopped in the shop and found these set aside for me (they always set aside militaria for me to price, although I normally wind up buying)!
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Re: WWII USMC Women's Grouping
Nice named group. Good to see some more women's items posted.
Cheers, Lez.
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Re: WWII USMC Women's Grouping
Thanks for the kind words, Lez! Glad I could share!
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Hi Ramsey,
Thanks for posting here and sharing your grandmother's items.
I unfortunately passed on your Grandmother's items to another collector several years ago. I'm looking through my messages on a couple forums and in email to see if I can find their contact info. Not having much luck at the moment, unfortunately.
If I do, I'll let them know you've expressed interest in being reunited with the items and pass on your contact info.
Thanks - Eric
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Thanks to RDHaig and Eric for reigniting this thread. Nice to see more from the history of Nancy Simons and hoping that they might yet be reunited. Best of luck.
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