Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Blue announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Sgt. Marian Blue, to Hans F. Nielsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz P. Nielsen.
Sgt. Blue, a marine in the Women's Reserve, is stationed at Camp Lejeune, New River, N.C.
Her fiance is employed at Omar Inc.
No definite date has been set for the wedding which will be an early spring event.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, January 2, 1944
First Birthday Reached For Women of Marines
The 325 or more Iowa women who preferred service to their country and a forestry green uniform to civilian life will be among the approximate 12,000 members of the United States marine corps women's reserve observing their first birthday.
None of them had a chance to see the halls of Montezuma or the shores of Tripoli, but each one enlisted has freed a marine for service overseas. Members of the corps serve only within continental United States.
Activities of the following Iowa members of the marines are representative of the service of the corps:
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Staff Sergeant Marian H. Blue, Council Bluffs, assistant steward in the women's uniform shop at Camp Lejeune.
Source: The DesMoines Register, February 13, 1944 (photo included)
