A post on Boredom Therapy pointed out the Bea Arthur, best known for her role at Dorothy "The Golden Girls", at TV Sitcom on the air from 1985-1992 that featured 4 women in their "golden years" living together in Miami, was once of the first Female Marines in the U.S, serving for nearly 3 years during World War II.
Thesmokinggun.com indicates she enlisted in 1943 when she was 21 years old and worked as a lab tech, drove a truck and worked as a typist while in the Marine Corp..
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