When the Marine Corps began recruiting women back in 1943, there was doubt in a great many minds as to just how the ideal young lady leatherneck ought to look and act. But hundreds of officers and men, as well as hundreds of admiring sister marines, gave no more thought to the problem after one look at a tall (5 ft. 10 in.), attractive brunette lady lieutenant named Julia E. Hamblet. "Judy," a Vassar graduate (economics and field hockey) from Winchester, Mass., looked like a girl who was born to pose for a...
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