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Description
In left photo Violet Van Wagner, of Brooklyn, and Florence Weidinger of Jersey City are sworn in as the first women marines 50 years ago this month. At right,true to the corps after half a century, the same ladies, Mrs. Violet Lopez, Queens, and Mrs. Florence MacAlister, Manhattan, wear borrowed Marine gear for re-enactment of ceremony.
