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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Corp. Bertlene Jenkins, Fontanelle, after graduation from aerographer's trade school, is now in post exchange office, Camp Elliott, San Diego, Cal.
Source: The DesMoines Register, February 13, 1944 (photo included)
Bertlene Jenkins Linden was born Sept. 21, 1921 to Robert Bert and Maggie Edwards Jenkins. She died Nov. 11, 1990 and is buried in Springdale Cemetery and Mausoleum, Peoria, IL.
She was married to Robert Eugene Linden. Robert served with the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
