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Shimanoff joined the Marines with enthusiastic support from her family during a massive recruitment drive to have women join the war effort. Her time in the service impacted the rest of her life.
In 1945, Adele Shimanoff joins the U.S. Marine Corps amid a larger plan to bring women into the military in order to “free a marine to fight”. Adele moves away from the traditional Women’s Reserves and into active duty for a year, where she forms lifelong friendships ...
