Sgt Sylvia Applebaum Levy

USMC 1943 -46

By Barbara Steever

My mother was from Philadelphia,  stationed in San Diego and then sent to Pearl Harbor where she was in the radio corps.  To my knowledge, she was among the first group of women Marines to arrive there.

The  photo below was actually a publicity shot taken when she arrived in Hawaii. She is the second woman on the left in the picture.

The picture of the three women saluting, shows my mother in the middle, her sister on the left (she was a WAVE), and her aunt (also a WAVE?) on the right.

Being a Marine for the “duration” was something she was proud of her entire life. She made it clear to her children that she wanted her service engraved on her bronze cemetery marker and have a flag draped casket.

This is just a bit of her history. She will never be forgotten.

Sylvia enlisted in the Marine Corps on 3 March 1943 and was sent to Hunter College 20 April 1943

Name:	Sylvia Applebaum
Muster Date:	Apr 1943
Enlistment Date:	3 Mar 1943
Rank:	Private
Station:	Co “E”, Martrdet, Usnts (Wr), The Bronx, New York

Name:	Sylvia Applebaum
Muster Date:	Jul 1943
Rank:	Private
Station:	Marine Training Detachment, U.S. Naval Training School, (Radio), Miani University, Oxford, Ohio.

Name:	Sylvia Applebaum
Muster Date:	Oct 1943
Rank:	Private First Class
Station:	Marine Training Detachment, Radio Materiel School, Omaha, Nebraska

 

Name:	Sylvia Applebaum
Muster Date:	Jan 1944
Enlistment Date:	3 Mar 1943
Rank:	Corporal
Station:	Marine Corps Women’s Reserve Detachment, Depot Of Supplies, San Francisco, California

Sylvia born on August 6, 1921 and passed away on February 5, 1996.

Rest in Peace Marine