SSgt Elize McKelvey
2023 National Women’s History Month “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories” “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories” is not only…
Corporal Germaine Laville
Corporal Germaine Laville Laville lived in Plaquemine, La., graduated from LSU in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in education…
Mary Bacon Hale
Mary Bacon Hale 1921-2014 (Leisure Village, Camarillo CA) Just touching the life led by Mary Peterson Bacon Hale was a…
Women Marines Reserve Band
Women Marines Reserve Band by Colonel Mary V Stremlow, USMCR (Ret) Probably the most colorful of all the Women’s Reserve…
E. Louise Stewart, MCWR
Who’s that pretty lady on the magazine cover? By Sabrina Messenger You may recognize this highly glamorized iconic picture on…
The History of the Women Marines Association
In the upcoming weeks we will go over the history of the Women Marines Association. The book was compiled by…
Rooted in Service
By Sharon Tutt My family background has military roots that span as far back as World War I. My maternal…
War Time Memories
Center for Oral and Public History Captures Recollections of Veterans and Others Once Stationed at El Toro By Natalie M….
Native American Woman Marine Barbara Beltran Steele
This Marine Was One of ‘A Few Good Women’ The U.S. Marine Corps prides itself, and rightly so, on the…
History of the USMC Women Reserves
The Marine Corps was strictly male until World War II except for 305 Marine Reservists (F), popularly termed “Marinettes,” who…
WA and MCA Announce Essay Contest
April 2, 2012 – 9:00am – July 15, 2012 – 5:00pm is the entry time. The Marine Corps Association and Foundation…
Lucille Ellen McClarren The FIRST woman Marine 1943
Recently I have had the great pleasure to be exchanging emails with Betty Harper the niece of Lucille McClarren. In…