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Cpl Mary Ann Rogers Oral History
Publication date: 19 February 2021
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title:
Cpl Mary Ann Rogers Oral History
creator:
Rogers, Mary Ann (Solinger) (1924 July 27 -
subject:
Marine Corps
description:
Mary Ann Rogers (Solinger) was born on July 27, 1924 in Minnesota. She grew up on a farm with 3 sisters and 2 brothers. She remembers wanting to be an ambulance driver because she knew how to drive. After going to teacher's college for a year, Mary Ann decided to enlist when she saw some Marines in dress uniform, but she had to wait until 1944 when she was 20 years old to do so. She had to lose 15 pounds in 14 days to join. She received orders to report to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for boot camp. She enjoyed boot camp, but remembers some girls left because of the discipline. After boot camp, she was assigned to Cooks and Bakers school for a few days of classes, then she was assigned to the Cherry Point Women's Mess Hall. There, she had her own butcher's shop and cooked meals for 2,400 women each day. While there, she also met her future husband who was a Mess Sergeant in the Marines. She got married in the spring of 1946 after the end of World War II and was discharged June 1946 at the rank of Corporal. They moved to Cherry Point, North Carolina and then to Quantico, Virginia as her husband changed stations. In 1956 she went to Parris Island, South Carolina. When her husband went overseas, she lived in Minnesota, and when her husband returned they went back to Cherry Point. Her husband eventually retired as CWO-4 in 1969. They had eleven children. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Wilson, Eleanor M.
date:
2003-03-24
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
802; 2003.802
source:
MCHC
language:
English
relation:
440023
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1944-1946
rights:
Unrestricted