Admiral Ernest J. King and Captain Mildred McAfee open a rally with WAVES, via a nationwide broadcast on CBS Radio.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
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Control Tower Operators
Control Tower Operators at Naval Air Station Norfolk keep tab on plane traffic using binoculars.
The color photograph comes from the National Archives.
Control Tower
Control Tower Operators at Naval Air Station Norfolk include WAVES.
The color photograph comes from the National Archives.
Code Class
Code Class is in session at the Radio School at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Note the clock: the instructor (foreground) is timing the rate of sending messages with his left hand.
The Howard Liberman photo comes from the National Archives.
Ship Service
The (landlocked) ship service at the Naval Air Training Command in Norman, OK. “Ship service” is the Navy term for store.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
Reynard Honored
Elizabeth Reynard, who was tasked with organizing the training school (boot camp) at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York, was the first WAVE to receive a Naval decoration.
The newspaper clipping can be found in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.
January, 1945
The WAVES Newsletter from January 1945 (70 years ago this month) featured training with oxygen masks with WAVES and sailors.
January 1944
Aviation Machinist Mates make the cover of the WAVES Newsletter from January 1944.
1/1/1945
Happy 2015! This is the yearbook from Iowa State Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls (now Northern Iowa University),where the WAVES had a training school.
It comes from the college’s Archives and Special Collections.
New Year’s Eve
What are you doing this New Year’s Eve? We’re guessing your routine isn’t as filled at this one for the WAVES at the training center in the Bronx on December 31, 1943. And they don’t even get to stay up to ring in the New Year!
The document comes from Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Hinges of History 