Your Favorite "Golden Girl" Was One of the First Female Marines

“Be a Marine… Free a Man to Fight” was the rallying call of the US Marine Corps for their new Women’s Reservists. It was the last service branch to allow women, per the National World War II Museum. Our very own Bea Arthur (still Bernice Frankel) enlisted on February 20, 1943, shortly after the call went out at age of 20.

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