[Portrait of Sherley Mae White]

• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] 1944
• Subjects: World War; 1939-1945;United States. Coast Guard; World War II era (1940-1946); Coast Guard > SPARS; Stripe; Ketchikan; Alaska
• Online Access: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/WVHP/id/3586

Sherley Mae White, drum major, is seen here posing for the SPAR Band in her enlisted personnel service dress uniform, in Palm Beach, Florida in 1944. On her left sleeve is one service stripe, indicating four years of active service in the United States Coast Guard. May 2010 oral history interview, a...