A Blog About Women Who Were 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.
In 1944, the Navy finally approved fully integrated units for women, meaning African American women could enlist in the WAVES. Jean Byrd Stewart was one of those women.
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.
We continue our month of videos with Margaret Anderson Thorngate, whose story about painting the USS Missouri starts our film.
This Navy WAVE asked that her name not be used. She recalls her experiences in the Navy in an interview from 2007.
It’s part of our month of videos in our lead up to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
Pat Connelly became a Link Trainer Instructor during World War II, training Navy pilots how to fly.
This is part of our month of video, a countdown to the release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II for home video.
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