A Blog About Women Who Were Homefront Heroines: the WAVES of World War II
The Navy caption for this 1943 photograph reads “My kitchen was never like this.”
In it, WAVE Ruth Potter gets a first look at the tools she’ll be using in her Machinist’s Mate training at Norman, Oklahoma. The photo comes from the National Archives.
WAVES from the Cedar Falls boot camp check into their next station, greeted by Navy man Frank F. Miller.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
WAVES put their feet up, after completing training at the Cedar Falls boot camp. From left, Helen Lane, Marjorie Hilben and Edna Brown are heading to their new assignments in this National Archives photograph.
Our photo today comes from the National Archives. WAVES who just completed their training at the Cedar Falls boot camp relax on board the train as they head to their new assignments. The photo shows Mary M. Martin (left) and Mary Lou Gillen (right).
In this photograph from the National Archives, WAVES leave the Cedar Falls boot camp by train and by bus for new places of instruction.
Families back home wanted to know what was happening with their WAVES as they went through training. Here, boots at the Cedar Falls Boot Camp are having their pictures taken to send home to families and friends.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
In this photograph from the National Archives, WAVES are having lunch at the mess hall for the Yeoman Training facility in Stillwater at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University).
WAVES in the mess hall at boot camp in Cedar Falla, Iowa.
They are (left to right): Paul Weis, Ann Walus, Edna Brown and Esther Swenson.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
No, this WAVE isn’t getting ready to go trick or treating (Happy Halloween). Juane Boegeman is happy because she’s getting to go on leave with Private Jerry Wampach from her boot camp in Cedar Falls.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
All work and no play makes Jane a dull WAVE. At the Radio School on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, WAVES held a jitterbug content – and this couple took home the top award.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
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