Opha mae johnson birth date

On what planet? Trekphiler , 19 December UTC [ reply ].

Opha May Johnson (née Jacob) was born in Kokomo, Indiana in She graduated from the Shorthand & Typewriting department of Wood's Commercial College in.

The next day, Opha M. Johnson enlisted and became the first official Woman Marine. During the remainder of World War I, women enlisted to "free a man to fight. Ruth C. During the last year of the war, all available male Marines were battling the Japanese in the Pacific. In their absence, Women Marines represented over half of the personnel at Marine Corps bases in the continental United States.

Date of birth is questionable.

Opha May Johnson (née Jacob, May 4, – August 11, ) was the first woman known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

I don't believe Opha Mae Johnson was 40 years old when she enlisted. Most Marine Corps histories list her date of birth as Feb 13 and death as January? District of Columbia, Select Marriages, The picture is clearly not that of an 18 year old, and is captioned as being taken shortly after her enlistment. It is interesting to note that she was 76 years old when she died and, given the birth year erroneously attributed, that would explain the year of death as being I ask you though, if the first ever women Marine died as late as , her death would have been published in every major newspaper.

As it is, her gravesite was only recently Sept cataloged, and remains unmarked.