WAVES receive instruction in Aviation Machinist’s Mates’ class at Naval Air Technical Training Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 1943. The photograph comes from the National Archives.
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Repair Shop
WAVES work on a plane in the assembly and repair shop at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Norman, Oklahoma, 1943. They are: Lucille Henderson, Darline Wagner, Phoebe Swan, Ruth Potter and Juanita Hess.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
Plane Workers
In this photograph from 1943, WAVES work on a plane at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Normal, Oklahoma. It comes from the National Archives.
In Training
Susan Ahn Cuddy would be sent to Cedar Falls, Iowa for her training as a WAVE.
You stand out like a sore thumb for one thing ,and so you have to behave properly. But, everyone was very cordial to me and accepting and I don’t think I faced any uh, problems except that many of them didn’t see an Asian before in the Midwest like in Iowa.
After her initial training, Ahn became one of the first women selected at a Link Trainer Instructor.
This photograph comes from the collection of Susan Ahn Cuddy and the Island Mountain Trading Co.
Hinges of History 