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Sgt June Daisy Whitehurst Oral History
Publication date: 20 August 2024
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title:
Sgt June Daisy Whitehurst Oral History
creator:
Whitehurst, June Daisy (Johnson) (1923 March 23 - )
subject:
Marine Corps Women's Reserve
description:
June Daisy J. Whitehurst (formerly Johnson) was born on March 23, 1923 in Evanston, Illinois. She grew up in St. Joseph, Missouri and graduated from high school in 1940. She taught shorthand from then until 1943 when she took and passed the civil service exam, working at the Treausry Department in Washington, DC. In March of that year, she joined the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve and reported directly to the office of Major Streeter, the first director of the women Marines. She went to the first class of boot camp at Hunter College, New York, and after completing that she was assigned as a link trainer instructor at Naval Air Station Atlanta, Georgia. She was then transferred to Cherry Point, North Carolina in the same role, and from there she volunteered for a new base: Atlantic Field, North Carolina. There, she met a Marine who had served at Guadalcanal, and they got married. She was released from active duty soon after in April 1945, and he transferred to MCAS Miramar in California. She was working as a secretary for the Red Cross when President Roosevelt died in April 1945. When her husband was sent to China, she went to Kansas City with her parents. He returned to the United States and received his discharge in March 1946, and they moved to Miami, Florida soon after. When she left the service Whitehurst had reached the rank of sergeant, and for her service she was awarded an American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Honorable Service Lapel Pin. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Wilson, Eleanor M.
date:
2004-09-08
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
998; 2005.998
source:
MCHC | CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
586140
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1943-45
rights:
Unrestricted