A Blog About Women Who Were Homefront Heroines: the WAVES of World War II
Northampton, Massachusetts, native Myrtle Bean saw WAVES officers training at Smith College, and was inspired to enlist in 1944.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
It took enlisting in the WAVES to get Doris Marquez to leave her home state of Indiana.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
World War II started while WAVE Virginia Gillmore was in college, and she decided to enlist in the Navy. Here, she talks about her experiences.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
WAVE Mary Bingham talks about enlisting in the WAVES and serving in the Navy.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
We’ve talked about Eileen Horner Blakely on our blog in the past. She served as a yeoman, and her story is a big part of our film.
Here, she talks about her experiences in boot camp at Hunter College in New York – specifically, mealtime.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
What was it like to live in those apartment houses converted to Navy barracks during the war? Irene Bendekoff can tell you. She was housed in apartments near the Hunter College Navy boot camp.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
Yesterday, we shared the memories of Edna Jean Clark, talking about her experiences enlisting in the WAVES. Here, she talks about what it was like to be in the boot camp at Hunter College in New York.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
Oregon WAVE Edna Jean Clark was one of the earliest women to join the Navy during World War II. She would become a teacher after the war.
Her story is a part of our month of videos, a countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
Betty Jane Ashcraft Fisher was the youngest Coast Guard SPAR in World War II. She was the youngest in her boot camp class (the last for the SPARs), which was in progress when the war ended.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
Aerographer (meteorologist) Liane Rose Galvin talks about her WAVE experiences.
It’s part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
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