Janet MacCubbin Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: This collection has been digitized in its entirety.
Where can I find more information?: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/1137
What's in the full collection?: 14 May 2009 oral history transcript; portrait photograph of Janet MacCubbin in the American Red Cross military welfare winter uniform and cap, circa 1941.
Full biography: Janet Murphy MacCubbin (1919-2010) of Brooklyn, New York, served in the American Red Cross from 1944 to 1946. Jane Emmitt MacCubbin was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 4, 1919. She moved to Montclair, New Jersey, at age three with her father and mother and elder sister. MacCubbin attend college at the Women’s College at the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1937 to 1941 and majored in Secretarial Administration. Upon graduation from WC she was employed with the financial firm J.P. Morgan & Company. In the fall of 1944 MacCubbin enlisted in the American Red Cross due to the letters of a friend serving with the organization in South Africa. She received her training in Washington D.C, where she worked with a Catholic USO unit. Upon the completion of her training she was sent to an embarkation depot in Seattle, Washington, for assignment. MacCubbin was assigned to a rest and recovery station on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. She was later attached to the 3rd Marine Division, which was recovering on the Parker Ranch after sustaining massive causalities during the recent battle for Iwo Jima prior to a possible redeployment for an invasion of Japanese home islands. After the end of the war, MacCubbin returned to J.P. Morgan and married a veteran of the United States Army.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Schools and Colleges
Branch of service: Red Cross
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
American Red Cross
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Oral history interview with Janet MacCubbin; Primarily documents Janet MacCubbin's service in the American Red Cross during World War II, and her education at the Womea's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNCG). MacCubbin tells of growing up during the Great Depression in New Jersey, and her education at WC. She describes her reasoning for joining the American Red Cross [ARC], and details the various duties that she performed for the ARC during the World War II. " Other topics include her views on the role of women in combat, her marriage, and her views on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.