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Rosetta Elliot McMahon (b. 1920) of McMechen, West Virginia, served as a typist in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1942 to 1944. Rosetta Elliot McMahon was born in McMechen, West Virginia, in September of 1920. She graduated from Union High School in Benwood, West Virginia, in 1938. She then worked as a server in the tea room of a local college and later went to work at the Continental Can Company, which had begun defense manufacturing. McMahon enlisted in the United States Navy WAVES on October 2, 1942. She completed basic training at Indiana University and in February 1943 was assigned to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in Washington, D.C. While stationed there she worked as a typist. She married Chester McMahon, a [...] Read more
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