Des Moines in the Services
Two Des Moines women have enlisted in the WAVES and will leave Jan. 25 for Hunter college, New York. They are Miss Marion Dunkelberg and Sally Dykstra. Both are living with Miss Dunkelberg's aunt, Miss Helen Dunkelberg, at 2919 Brattleboro ave. They were sworn into the WAVES Saturday, Miss Dunkelberg's twentieth birthday. Miss Dykstra was employed in Des Moines by the Hawkeye Casualty co., and Miss Dunkelberg by Millowners Mutual Insurance Co. Both women's parents live in Alton, Ia.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, January 19, 1944
At Port Blakely
Marion Dunkelberg, S 1/C has arrived at Port Blakely, Wash, where with 19 other outstanding WAVES who recently graduated from the Naval radio school at Oxford, Ohio, she has been assigned to further study in secret radio work. Her address is Naval Radio Activities -- 40, Port Blakely, Wash.
Source: Alton Democrat, Alton IA - August 21, 1944
"Sherman Was Right -- "
So wrote Marion Dunkelberg RM3/c in a letter to her mother, Mrs. J.W. Allen, when she discovered that after she and a WAVE friend had made joyous plans for a transfer from San Diego to Hawaii and had bought a whole "trousseau" of tropical clothes, the navy instead transferred her to the desert camp at Shoemaker, Calif, near San Francisco. Her new address is Co. O Platoon 1. Bldg 369 USN TADCEN, Shoemaker, Cal.
Source: Alton Democrat, Alton IA - September 6, 1945
