Anne E. Horney Boehmer 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?: Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
What's in the full collection?: March 2011 oral history transcript and scanned photographs.
Full biography: Anne E. Horney Boehmer (1922-2015), of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve from 1943 to 1944. Anne Boehmer was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1922. After high school, she moved to Syracuse, New York for a time, before returning to Greensboro. She then joined the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve and attended basic training at Hunter College in New York. Boehmer’s first duty station was Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. She was next assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, also in North Carolina, where she worked keeping records of airplane maintenance. While at Cherry Point, she met her husband, married, and became pregnant, necessitating her discharge in 1944.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Marines -- USMC Womens Reserve
Conflict: World War II era (1940-1946)
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945
United States. Marine Corps--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Oral history interview with Anne E. Horney Boehmer; Anne Boehmer speaks of her early life, military service, and the military service of her siblings. Boehmer discusses her experiences during the service, the experience of one of her brothers who was a prisoner of war in a Japanese prison camp, her time at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, and her life shortly after her discharge from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve.

: Portrait of Anne Boehmer; Portrait of Anne Boehmer, circa 1943. She wears the Marine Corps summer service uniform, light green service cap, and light green handbag.

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