Joy Bright Hancock, the former Yeomanette who would eventually become WAVES commander, poses in front of a plane during a visit to the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
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Sea of Faces
This is another shot from the rally we posted about yesterday. Here, more than 4,000 attend the July 1943 rally in Washington, DC celebrating the 1st anniversary of the founding of the WAVES.
It comes from the National Archives.
Rally Girls
WAVES Commander Mildred McAfee and Navy Secretary Frank Knox are at a rally celebrating the first anniversary of the WAVES founding. The celebration was in Washington, DC on July 27, 1943.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
Photo Duty
Hey, there, photographer Marjorie Sellers! Say, “cheese!” Sellers was one of two WAVES on photo duty at NAS Seattle. Here she’s working in the photo lab.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
Letters Home
In this 1943 photograph, WAVES Jane Rosenbaum, June Davis and Thelma Stretch (left to right) do their laundry and write letters at night in the room at Yeoman School in Stillwater Oklahoma.
The photo by Wayne Miller comes from the National Archives.
Calisthenics
WAVES at the Naval Training Center in Norman, Oklahoma bundle up to do outdoor calisthenics in this photo from February 1943.
The photograph comes from the National Archives and was shot by Wayne Miller.
The Portrait
WAVES and their commander pose for a portrait. We don’t know much about this photo – the location even isn’t clear.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
August 13, 1942
Memos like these went out to prospective WAVE officers shortly after the WAVES were founded on July 30, 1942. Think of it as a “save the date” card – for the military.
The memo is held by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
The Uniform
We showed you the hats. Now here is the rest of the uniform, as WAVES wait to get fitted. The WAVES uniform was designed by the couture designer Mainbocher.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
Hats Hats Hats!
There were lots of different ways to look fetching in the WAVES uniform hat, obvious from this cartoon published in a WAVES Newsletter.
Hinges of History 