MF144 Women in the Military

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  Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, Part 1

  Louine Lunt Connor Peck

  Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, August 16, 2000, at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Peck talks about serving as a Second Lieutenant as a nurse in the Navy Nurses Corps from 1938 to 1941; serving in the Army Nurses Corps from 1943 to 1945; serving on the USAHS Acadia, which sailed to the Bay of Naples and Normandy. Text: 53 pp. transcript. Time: 01:34:39.

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  Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, Part 2

  Louine Lunt Connor Peck

  Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, August 16, 2000, at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Peck talks about serving as a Second Lieutenant as a nurse in the Navy Nurses Corps from 1938 to 1941; serving in the Army Nurses Corps from 1943 to 1945; serving on the USAHS Acadia, which sailed to the Bay of Naples and Normandy. Text: 53 pp. transcript. Time: 01:34:39.

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  Cheryl L. Martin, interviewed by Kim Sealy, Part 1

  Cheryl L. Martin

  Cheryl L. Martin, interviewed by Kim Sealy, November 15, 2001, Brewer, Maine. Martin talks about personal and parent’s educational background; decision to join Air Force instead of go to college; military history; “MAINEiacs”; federal versus state military service; time in basic training; benefits; logistics and shipping duties; year off with Fortune 500 company; CCAF; time as boom operator (air refueling); time in Kosovo; war effect on family; Shaw Air Force Base; rank and gender issues; air versus ground combat; experience in “gender free” military culture; officer versus enlisted rankings. Text: 44 pp. transcript. Time: 01:19:43.

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  Cheryl L. Martin, interviewed by Kim Sealy, Part 2

  Cheryl L. Martin

  Cheryl L. Martin, interviewed by Kim Sealy, November 15, 2001, Brewer, Maine. Martin talks about personal and parent’s educational background; decision to join Air Force instead of go to college; military history; “MAINEiacs”; federal versus state military service; time in basic training; benefits; logistics and shipping duties; year off with Fortune 500 company; CCAF; time as boom operator (air refueling); time in Kosovo; war effect on family; Shaw Air Force Base; rank and gender issues; air versus ground combat; experience in “gender free” military culture; officer versus enlisted rankings. Text: 44 pp. transcript. Time: 01:19:43.

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  Marguerite McNeil, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, Part 1

  Marguerite Dow McNeil

  Marguerite McNeil, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, February 5, 2001. McNeil talks about joining the military when she was 26 years old during World War II; serving as an acting Sergeant and teacher (drilling and math skills) in Daytona Beach, FL and North Carolina; being sent to Lackey, Philippines where she served until contracting a fungal infection, was hospitalized and eventually discharged. Text: 23 pp. transcript. Time: 01:24:03. Photographs: p14513-p14515.

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  Marguerite McNeil, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, Part 2

  Marguerite Dow McNeil

  Marguerite McNeil, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, February 5, 2001. McNeil talks about joining the military when she was 26 years old during World War II; serving as an acting Sergeant and teacher (drilling and math skills) in Daytona Beach, FL and North Carolina; being sent to Lackey, Philippines where she served until contracting a fungal infection, was hospitalized and eventually discharged. Text: 23 pp. transcript. Time: 01:24:03. Photographs: p14513-p14515.

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  Marguerite McNeil, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, Part 3

  Marguerite Dow McNeil

  Marguerite McNeil, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, February 5, 2001. McNeil talks about joining the military when she was 26 years old during World War II; serving as an acting Sergeant and teacher (drilling and math skills) in Daytona Beach, FL and North Carolina; being sent to Lackey, Philippines where she served until contracting a fungal infection, was hospitalized and eventually discharged. Text: 23 pp. transcript. Time: 01:24:03. Photographs: p14513-p14515.

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  Annie (McNeil) McCarthy, interviewed by Robin Arnold and Molly MacLean

  Annie McNeil McCarthy

  Annie (McNeil) McCarthy, interviewed by Robin Arnold and Molly MacLean, November 17, 2000, at her home in Bangor, Maine. McCarthy talks about being a member of a detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps assigned to the Air Force; working as a Radio Operator in Daytona, Florida; serving with Air Force Intelligence under General George Stratemeyer in the 8th Air Force, Strategic Air Command in China and India, and being one of the first 13 women sent to South East Asia during World War II as an experiment. Text: 23 pp. transcript only. Photographs: p14513-p14515.

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  Cathy Parsons, interviewed by Laura Wheaton

  Cathy Moran Parsons

  Cathy Parsons, interviewed by Laura Wheaton, November 15, 2001, Bangor Maine. Parsons talks about joining the Army National Guard in 1990; being sent to Desert Storm and so joining the active U. S. Army; being stationed for a time in Schwabisch Hall, Germany; her rank of Master Sergeant (upon leaving). Text: 15 pp. transcript. Time: 00:35:12. Photographs: p14522, p14523. No restrictions.

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  Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, Part 1

  Susan Murphy-Hammond

  Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, October 28, 2001, Augusta, Maine. Murphy-Hammond talks about the U.S. Navy: enlisting in 1970; basic training at 18; the strict list of what could be brought; barracks; having to walk paths that were unmarked, punishment if you went off; training with just women; having to have a physical twice; wearing dungarees; 3 uniforms; training with 28 or 30 girls; room standards; failing inspection too many times, didn’t graduate; wearing a wig so she didn’t have to cut her hair; her station in Quonset Point, RI; waves; black shoe; brown shoe; working in aircraft intermediate maintenance department; first class petty officer; husband going to Vietnam; honorable discharge for pregnancy; knife and fork school; working with 2 or 3 other women; hospital on base; belief that all U.S. citizens should serve; people in military turning to alcohol for the loneliness; could drink on base underaged. Text: 34 pp. transcript. Time: 01:33:21.

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  Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, Part 2

  Susan Murphy-Hammond

  Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, October 28, 2001, Augusta, Maine. Murphy-Hammond talks about the U.S. Navy: enlisting in 1970; basic training at 18; the strict list of what could be brought; barracks; having to walk paths that were unmarked, punishment if you went off; training with just women; having to have a physical twice; wearing dungarees; 3 uniforms; training with 28 or 30 girls; room standards; failing inspection too many times, didn’t graduate; wearing a wig so she didn’t have to cut her hair; her station in Quonset Point, RI; waves; black shoe; brown shoe; working in aircraft intermediate maintenance department; first class petty officer; husband going to Vietnam; honorable discharge for pregnancy; knife and fork school; working with 2 or 3 other women; hospital on base; belief that all U.S. citizens should serve; people in military turning to alcohol for the loneliness; could drink on base underaged. Text: 34 pp. transcript. Time: 01:33:21.

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  Petty Officer Lee Oliver, interviewed by Shavonne Brosnan

  Lee Oliver

  Petty Officer Lee Oliver, interviewed by Shavonne Brosnan, June 1, 2003. Text: 15 pp. transcript. Time: 00:29:57.

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  Deborah Owens, interviewed by Jessica Mayhan, Part 1

  Deborah Lynn Owens

  Sergeant First Class Deborah Owens, interviewed by Jessica Mahan, October 30, 2001, in Owens’ home in Newport, Maine. Owens, born in Clemens, Georgia in 1966, talks about joining the army when she was 18; experience driving trucks in the Army; difference between training for men and women in the army in 1985; tasks as an army recruiter; experiences while stationed in Saudi Arabia; family support of her going overseas; equality of genders in military squads; plans to remain in the army until retirement; experiences in all the places she was stationed. Also included Xerox copies of photographs; 2-page journal. Text: 23 pp. transcript, 2 pp. journal. Time: 00:42:18. Photos: p09141 – p09147.

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  Deborah Owens, interviewed by Jessica Mayhan, Part 2

  Deborah Lynn Owens

  Sergeant First Class Deborah Owens, interviewed by Jessica Mahan, October 30, 2001, in Owens’ home in Newport, Maine. Owens, born in Clemens, Georgia in 1966, talks about joining the army when she was 18; experience driving trucks in the Army; difference between training for men and women in the army in 1985; tasks as an army recruiter; experiences while stationed in Saudi Arabia; family support of her going overseas; equality of genders in military squads; plans to remain in the army until retirement; experiences in all the places she was stationed. Also included Xerox copies of photographs; 2-page journal. Text: 23 pp. transcript, 2 pp. journal. Time: 00:42:18. Photos: p09141 – p09147.

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  Beth Parks and Colonel Mary Cady, interviewed by Devida Kellogg

  Beth Parks and Mary Cady

  Beth Parks and Lieutenant Colonel Mary Cady, interviewed by Devida Kellogg, August 25, 2002. Parks and Cady, on the Veterans Panel, speak of their experiences in the military during the Vietnam War era; reasons for enlisting in the military; society’s reactions to the Vietnam War; propaganda, including “The Green Beret” by Robert Moore and “The Ballad of the Green Beret” by Staff Sergeant Barry Saddler; Beth’s experiences in a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital); Beth’s participation in constructing an evacuation hospital; MK’s education and participation in the Army at the University of Kansas; the College Army Nurse and WAC Student Officer Programs; MK’s training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and Fort Ben Harrison, Indiana; MK’s employment at Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Devens, Massachusetts; MK’s enlistment in the Army Reserves; MK’s retirement in April of 1990; their experiences as women in the military; sexism in the military; the G.I. Bill; Mr. Branneth, a Canadian Vietnam Veteran; opinions on women in combat; and education at the University of Maine. Text: no transcript. Recording: mfc_na3085_c2129_01 (C 2129). Time: 00:47:08. Photographs: p14552-p14557. Restrictions: None.

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  Paula Pietrowski, interviewed by Annie Howley

  Paula K. Pietrowski

  Paula Pietrowski, interviewed by Annie Howley, April 21, 2003. Pietrowski, age 36-37, talks about her decision to join the Coast Guard; her family and boyfriend’s reaction to her enlistment; her basic training experiences; returning to Maine for assignment; male vs. female commanding officers; tension between men and women and between women; minorities in the Coast Guard; sexual harassment; whether women should be included in the next draft; how she spent her leisure time; her discharge and transition to civilian life; rising through the ranks; gays and lesbians in the military; whether she would do it all over again; her most positive experience in the Coast Guard; her biggest struggle in the Coast Guard; and her advice for people, particularly women, joining the military. Text: 20 pp. transcript. Recording: No recording. Photograph: p14500, detail p14501.

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  Bessie Fleetwood, interviewed by Elizabeth LaPierre, Part 1

  Bessie Isabelle Plummer Fleetwood

  Bessie Fleetwood, interviewed by Elizabeth LaPierre, December 9, 2001, Kennebunkport Maine. Fleetwood talks about completing her basic training in Cedar Falls, Iowa; serving as a Yeoman First Class in the Vietnam War; being stationed in Endicott Rhode Island. Text: 18 pp. transcript. Time: 00:57:45.

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  Bessie Fleetwood, interviewed by Elizabeth LaPierre, Part 2

  Bessie Isabelle Plummer Fleetwood

  Bessie Fleetwood, interviewed by Elizabeth LaPierre, December 9, 2001, Kennebunkport Maine. Fleetwood talks about completing her basic training in Cedar Falls, Iowa; serving as a Yeoman First Class in the Vietnam War; being stationed in Endicott Rhode Island. Text: 18 pp. transcript. Time: 00:57:45.

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  Lisa Powell, interviewed by Jessica Mayhan

  Lisa Powell

  Staff Sergeant Lisa Powell, interviewed by Jessica Mayhan, November 5, 2001, in Powell’s home in Hermon, Maine. Powell, born in McAdam, New Brunswick in 1968, talks about joining the Navy after high school; her experiences with basic training; moving on to tech school to learn her job; what Powell had to do at her job as a radioman; her time stationed in Saudi Arabia; treatment of foreign women in Saudi Arabia; how she spent her time overseas; Navy paid for her housing while overseas. Text: 7 pp. transcript. Time: 00:29:05.

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  Margaret E. Puckett, interviewed by Melissa A St. Peter, Part 1

  Margaret E. Puckett

  Margaret E. Puckett, interviewed by Melissa A St. Peter, November 2, 2001, at Margaret’s home in Bangor, Maine. Margaret talks about her entering the military, Women’s Army Corps, in 1973; being stationed in Fort Bragg, NC, where she was a Second Lieutenant; ending her career as a Lieutenant Colonel; being part of and helping with the desegregation of the army; issues with male respect toward female officers; the “growing pains” they all went through; the mentorship of younger women by the older; serving 1973 - 1993. Text: 22 pp. partial transcript. Time: 01:37:18. Photographs: p14537, p14538.

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  Margaret E. Puckett, interviewed by Melissa A St. Peter, Part 2

  Margaret E. Puckett

  Margaret E. Puckett, interviewed by Melissa A St. Peter, November 2, 2001, at Margaret’s home in Bangor, Maine. Margaret talks about her entering the military, Women’s Army Corps, in 1973; being stationed in Fort Bragg, NC, where she was a Second Lieutenant; ending her career as a Lieutenant Colonel; being part of and helping with the desegregation of the army; issues with male respect toward female officers; the “growing pains” they all went through; the mentorship of younger women by the older; serving 1973 - 1993. Text: 22 pp. partial transcript. Time: 01:37:18. Photographs: p14537, p14538.

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  Yvonne Roland, interviewed by Hillary Jackson

  Yvonne Roland

  Yvonne Roland, interviewed by Hillary Jackson, November 26, 2001. Roland, who was born in Alabama, talks about the days when she was in the Air Force: being stationed in Turkey, Andrews Air Force Basin Maryland, and been to Colorado, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina, and Pease Air Force in new Hampshire; her start as a commissioned officer; Gulf War; benefits of military training; politics; changes she saw; funny moments; Egypt; travel; competitiveness in the military; feelings about the military; women in combat. Text: 13 pp. transcript. Time: 00:29:19.

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  Deborah Smith, interviewed by Sarah Beazley

  Deborah Schultz Smith

  Deborah Smith, interviewed by Sarah Beazley, April 15, 2003, in her home in Brewer, Maine. Smith, age 42-43, talks about her decision to join the Air National Guard; rising through the ranks; her family and friends’ reaction to her enlistment; her current duties in the Air National Guard; her basic training experiences; how basic training affected her self-image; the bonds she formed with other female enlistees; discrimination in the military; changes in the role of women in the military; nursing as a historic profession for women in the military; women organizations in the military; her leisure time; meeting her husband in the military; dating within the military; her various overseas deployments; coping with stress; how her service has shaped her life; whether she would do it all over again; whether she encouraged her daughters to enlist; why she would not recommend women join the Army; lesbians in the military; and following orders against one’s conscience. Text: 17 pp. transcript. Recording: No recording.

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  Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, interviewed by Sarah Lawler, Part 1

  Jacalyn Louisa Shope Ellingsen

  Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, interviewed by Sarah Lawler, November 13, 2001, unknown location. Ellingsen talks about her experience as an information manager in the Air National Guard since 1979; basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas; tech school in MS; her reasons for joining; computer use; rules and regulations; the view of women in the military, Air Force, and administration; her experience as a hippie in Huntingdon, PA during the Vietnam War; patriotism; her view of the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War; the role of the Air Nation Guard; the reaction of her family and friends to her enlistment; GI Bill; the relationship between the government and the military; her stay in Alaska during her husband’s tour; marriage, divorce, and motherhood; military benefits; the government’s handling of September 11th and anthrax; the role of women and discrimination in the military and civilian workplace; women in combat; female relationships; military promotional policies; travel. Transcript: 48 pp. Time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

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  Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, interviewed by Sarah Lawler, Part 2

  Jacalyn Louisa Shope Ellingsen

  Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, interviewed by Sarah Lawler, November 13, 2001, unknown location. Ellingsen talks about her experience as an information manager in the Air National Guard since 1979; basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas; tech school in MS; her reasons for joining; computer use; rules and regulations; the view of women in the military, Air Force, and administration; her experience as a hippie in Huntingdon, PA during the Vietnam War; patriotism; her view of the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War; the role of the Air Nation Guard; the reaction of her family and friends to her enlistment; GI Bill; the relationship between the government and the military; her stay in Alaska during her husband’s tour; marriage, divorce, and motherhood; military benefits; the government’s handling of September 11th and anthrax; the role of women and discrimination in the military and civilian workplace; women in combat; female relationships; military promotional policies; travel. Transcript: 48 pp. Time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

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