Brooks, Mary Jean (Interview transcript and video), 2007
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Brooks, Mary Jean, “Brooks, Mary Jean (Interview transcript and video), 2007,” Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27154.
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Brooks, Mary Jean (Interview transcript and video), 2007
Mary Jean Brooks was in the WAVES during World War II. She trained at Smith College in communications. She worked in the Naval Department building in Washington, D.C., encoding and decoding messages sent to and from naval bases and ships. She delivered some messages herself to different government offices and to the White House.