Junior Girls Canteen 1943-1946

Junior Girls Canteen 1943-1946. . During World War II, forty of Troy's teenage girls, their mothers, and volunteers operated a free canteen service for troops on the platform of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station. The group began as a few neighborhood girls providing magazines to soldiers while trains were stopped. With support and donations from Miami County communities and six additional counties, thousands of food baskets and countless drinks were given to approximately 600,000 soldiers trackside. Books, games, cigarettes, and other sundries were made available to soldiers on their trips to and from Europe or the Pacific. The volunteers of the Junior Girls Canteen served every train and soldier that came through the station, whether it was in the dead of night or the coldest day of winter. Throughout World War II, many other canteens were created across the nation, including eleven other canteens in Ohio., (Lower Plaque): , Canteen Girls, Mary Jane Attenweiler , Margaret Attenweiler , Eileen Burgin , Marilyn Chase , Nancy Chronaberry , Thelma Dohm , Patty Fox , Katherine Hartzell , Alice Hobbs , Jeannine Kendall , Kathleen Kendall , Patty Kirkland , Doris McMath , Lois McWilliams , Phyllis McWilliams , Mary Lee Mumford , Jackie Ovenshire , Eleanor Priest , Marlene Pour , Patricia Pour , Nanette Rudisill , Rosemary Rudisill , Mary Margaret Rush , Mary Lou Scott , Phyllis Shane , Charlene Strome , Hazel Sturgeon , Betty Tooley , Helen Turner , Patricia Wray , MASCOT Mickey Attenweiler , Donated by the American Legion Post 43, VFW Post 5436 and AM VETS Post 88