Polk County

Pvt. Rosabelle Mahoney

 

 

What Do You Think?

Question: Do you agree with the statement made by Lieut. Gen. Com. Philip Soloman, navy psychiatrist, assigned to the Marine Corps, that some women join the service because they are bored with their bosses ugly faces?

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Pvt. Rosabelle Mahoney, 22, WAC, Fort Des Moines: "Most of the girls I know are in because they have husbands or brother in. I went in before my husband and the same day that my brother did."

Source: The DesMoines Register, February 25, 1944 (photo included)