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YN1 Margaret Baros Oral History
Publication date: 17 July 2024
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title:
YN1 Margaret Baros Oral History
creator:
Baros, Margaret "Peggy" Douglas (Peck) (1923 June 18 - )
subject:
Navy WAVES
description:
This is the original audio of the interview. Margaret “Peggy” Baros (formerly Peck) was born on June 18, 1923 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. In 1943, she went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to enlist in the Navy WAVES and went to Hunter College for basic training that August. She was then sent to Yeoman Training in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and was stationed at the Fleet Post Office in New York in November 1943. She worked there until the war ended in Europe, and she was in Times Square when peace was declared on the European front. All the WAVES at Fleet Post Office New York were then transferred to Fleet Post Office San Francisco, traveling there by troop train that went up through Canada and back down to California. She worked at Fleet Post Office San Francisco for about a month, until war in the Pacific ended on August 15, 1945. This time around, she was in the middle of San Francisco when peace was declared. She was then transferred to the Naval Separation Center in Shoemaker, California. She married while working there, and was up for discharge in December 1945. She left the WAVES with the rank of Yeoman 1st Class ad was awarded the American Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Weigand, Cindy
date:
2002-08-01
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
048; 2003.048
source:
Weigand | CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
006367
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1943-45
rights:
Unrestricted