Transportation in World War II: Hazel Dickerson recalls service as a United States Marine

Thursday, November 10, 2011

It's been well over six decades since United States Marine Corps recruit Hazel Dickerson began boot camp at Camp LeJeune, N.C. She downplays the part she played in the historic effort of the "Greatest Generation," but she can still remember how she felt as she carried her suitcase into the training facility. "There were girls hanging out the windows yelling 'you'll be sorry.' I was ready to go home," Dickerson said. But she didn't go home. She stuck it out through boot camp and motor transport training and became a United States marine.

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