To Training School

The initial Navy WAVES boot camp was at Iowa State Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls. It would be a boot camp in fall of 1942 through January 1943. In February 1943, the WAVES boot camp moved to Hunter College in the Bronx, New York.

This image comes from Marjorie Sue Green’s booklet From Recruit to Salty WAVE! The Ordeal of Seaman Green held by The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

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