Service Salutes
Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina, November 1, 1943 -- Private First Class Trude May Quick, daughter of Mrs. A.B. Cutshall of Terril, Iowa and a member of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve, has been attached to tis base and assigned as a student in the Motor Transport School.
The course lasts four weeks and embraces instructions in all phases of motor vehicle operation and maintenance. Women Marines who graduate will be qualified to drive one-half ton and one ton light delivery trucks, Jeeps, stations wagons, ambulances and the like, and to perform preventive maintenance and light repairs on the vehicles.
Source: The Terril Record, November 4, 1943
Terril Boys in the Army and Navy
Trude Mae Quick is the daughter of Mrs. A.B. Cutshall. She was born Nov. 18, 1920 at Hartman, Colorado. She is a graduate of Spencer high school. There are two brothers, Daniel, in England, and John at LaHunta, Colorado, and one sister, Mrs. Rosella Kephart of Cedar Rapids.
Trude enlisted in San Francisco, California in the Maines Woman's Reserve Corps in July 1943. She took her boot training at New River, N.C. and is now a corporal in the motor transport division, stationed at San Diego, California.
Source: The Terril Record, February 10, 1944 (photo included)
A MARINE WELDER
Whenever a woman marine is qualified to do a job formerly handled by a combat marines, she takes over and releases a man for fighting duty. Correctly garbed for her job as a welder, Marine Corp Trude May Quick, daughter of Mrs. Bertha Cutshall, Terril, Ia., service with the marine corps women's reserve as a mechanic for the motor transport division at the marines corps base, San Diego, Cal.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, February 24, 1944 (photo included)
***Further Research:
Trude May Quick Malson Armstrong. She died Feb. 24, 2006 and is buried in Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, CO. Cpl. Quick served with the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II.
She was married to William “Bill” Ralph Malson, Robert “Bob” Franklin Malson and Oliver David “Blackie” Armstrong. Bill Malson served with the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. Blackie Armstrong served with the U.S. Army medical corps in World War II in North Africa and Italy.
Source: ancestry.com
