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Legacies Project Oral History: June Bennett

Wed, 01/15/2020 - 10:15am

Mary June Bennett was born in 1922 in Evanston, Illinois. She grew up in Ann Arbor and Birmingham, Michigan during the Prohibition Era. After attending the University of Michigan, she joined the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) and graduated from midshipman’s school at Smith College in 1944. She was photo editor of the U.S. Navy’s All Hands Magazine. She had three children with her first husband, Maxwell Matthews, and after their divorce she married Clyde “Buck” Bennett in 1967. She was a family therapist for 25 years. She passed away in 2016.

June Bennett was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2008 as part of the Legacies Project.

The Navy Is Calling For WAVES and SPARS!

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Ann Arbor News, June 2, 1943
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2
Month
June
Year
1943
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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. group prior to reporting to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. for basic training, March 1943 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. group prior to reporting to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. for basic training, March 1943 image
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1943
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Ann Arbor News, March 5, 1943
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WILL LEAVE MONDAY: Auxiliaries Laura G. Anderson, Doris M. Hainen, Irma R. Brown, Edith M. Carmine and Margaret Aschenbrenner are the latest Ann Arbor recruits for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Marie Villeneuve, who is now shown here, will also be with the group when they leave Chicago Monday to report to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. for their basic training.
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