Marian "Mac" McBurney Kilgore Photograph Album
Content Description
This photograph album entitled "Navy Days at Anacostia" contains photographs documenting Kilgore's service in the WAVES.
Dates
- circa 1943-1946
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Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Marian I. "Mac" McBurney Kilgore (1916-1999) served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) as an aviation machinist during World War II.
Marian I. "Mac" McBurney Kilgore born in 1916 and raised in Washington, Pennsylvania. She worked as an elementary school teacher before enlisting in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service)in March 1943." She did her basic training at United States Naval Training Station on the Bronx campus of Hunter College in New York.
She was then sent to the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Memphis, Tennessee to be trained to as an aviation mechanist. Kilgore was then stationed at Anacostia Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. where she was one of the first women to be assigned as an aviation mechanist." In addition to performing maintenance on navy airplanes, she was also a member of a singing trio of female airline mechanics who called themselves "The Merrie Mechs"." They performed at other Naval Air Stations and Naval Hospitals.
Kilgore met George Linson Kilgore , another airline mechanic at Anacostia, and married him in 1946. They lived in Rockville, Maryland and raised three children. Kilgore died in 1999.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 Scrapbook Box)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Title
- Marian "Mac" McBurney Kilgore Photo Album
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 August
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository