Margaret Ellen "Daisy" Pickman (1917-2008), of Bedford, Massachusettes, served as an American Red Cross recreation station worker in the Pacific from 1943-1945.
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Digitization of this collection is still in progress.
The collection contains 252 letters to and from Margaret Daisy Pickman from 1932-1946.
Margaret Ellen "Daisy" Pickman (1917-2008), of Bedford, Massachusetts, served as an American Red Cross recreation station worker in the South Pacific from 1943-1945. Pickman was a Radcliffe and Yale Drama School graduate from a prominent New England Family. She joined the American Red Cross and was posted to Rockhampton, Queensland Australia where she worked at a recreation center. Pickman was later assigned to set up and staff Red Cross recreation centers in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines. She returned to the U.S. in October 1945. In June 1946 she married former Coast Guard Officer Gilbert Oakley, Jr.
Women's History Military
Red Cross
World War II era (1940-1946)
World War, 1939-1945 American Red Cross
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