Marjorie Bloom served with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943-44. In 1943 she was stationed in Newark, New Jersey, being trained in radio technology and operation. Upon graduation she transferred to Dyersburg, Tennessee, where she worked in a radio control tower typing logs of the communications between airplanes and air traffic controllers. During her service she met Don Williams, also in the service, whom she married and had a child with by 1945.