In this site we’ll be telling the the stories of the WAVES of World War II, or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. The blog is part of the larger multimedia project “Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.”
Our Team
Kathleen M. Ryan is the director of the interactive documentaries Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II and Pin Up! The Movie. She’s an associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information. Her mother was a WAVE.
David Staton, our producer, is an assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado.
- Anna Fogelman
- Women Called to Action
- The Hidden Heroes of World War II
- Mavis Kohler
- Meet Helen Zirpiades
Posts of Interest
Meet the WAVES and SPARs
June 8, 2011
We did oral history interviews with more than 50 women who served in the WAVES and SPARs, including Margaret Anderson Thorngate.
Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II
Want to see our feature film about the WAVES and SPARs? You can get a DVD on Amazon, or stream on Amazon and Vimeo.
Hinges of History 