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Sgt Betty Lee Leist Oral History
Publication date: 31 July 2024
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title:
Sgt Betty Lee Leist Oral History
creator:
Leist, Betty "Bea" (Megentity) (1923 March 6 - )
subject:
Marine Corps Women's Reserve
description:
Betty “Bea” Leist (Megenity) was born on March 6, 1923 and enlisted in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve in 1943. She was in the third class of Marines to go to basic training at Hunter College in New York. After waiting for enough women to finish boot camp at Cherry Point, North Carolina, she went to advanced training at Storekeeper’s School at the University of Indiana: Bloomington. She went to back to MCAS Cherry Point for two months before being assigned to US Marine Corps Air Station in El Centro, California at the end of 1943 with the Aviation Women Reserve Squadron 3. At El Centro, she was the non-commissioned officer in charge of the Aviation Supply Department. She met and married her husband while stationed there and was discharged in September 1944. While in the service, she marched in a regimental review for Madam Chiang Kai-Shek when she visited the United States. When she left the service Leist had reached the rank of sergeant, and for her service she was awarded an American Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Beckner, Jennifer
date:
2002-06-04
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
559; 2003.559
source:
MCHC | CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
053609
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1943-45
rights:
Unrestricted