What’s it like to be a WAVE? Muriel Caldwell fills in the details for students at the Punahou School in Hawaii.
All Aboard!
The Highlight
The highlight of the day? Incoming mail (at least at NATTC Norman, Oklahoma).
The Wayne Miller photo comes from the National Archives.
Joy Bright Hancock
Joy Bright Hancock, who would become a captain with the Navy.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
Hawaii Jobs
As 1945 progressed, more and more WAVES would arrive in Hawaii doing more and more jobs, including this batch of air traffic controllers.
From Secretary to WAVE
WAVE Emma Denton Shelton, who left a job as a secretary at the Nashville Tennessean to become a WAVE. She became a communications officer in the Sixth Naval District, Charleston, SC. Here she’s walking home from work.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
Fast Learners
From the National Archives notes about this photograph,
AMM Instructor says WAVES are quicker at learning than men.
Hair Raising
War or no war, we must have clean hair
– reads the caption from this photograph from 1943. WAVES at the “modern and up-to-date” beauty salon at NATTC Norman, Oklahoma.
It comes from the National Archives.
Plotting Coordinates
Have you ever been to Treasure Island? These WAVES are tracking aircraft positions at the San Francisco Bay base.
Helping Hand
WAVE Dolores Perpente, a Pharmacist’s Mate, helps Ensign Lucille Beane of the Navy Nurse Corps, dressing the wound of an Iowa Jima veteran.
Hinges of History 