A Blog About Women Who Were Homefront Heroines: the WAVES of World War II
We continue our interview with Betty Bruns Lord and Lois Jean Linder, conducted in 2007.
Here, they talk about their assignments, and the reaction of their families their enlisting.
Their story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
We continue our interview with Betty Bruns Lord and Lois Jean Linder, conducted in 2007.
Here, they talk about the Navy uniforms.
Their story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
Best friends Betty Bruns Lord and Lois Jean Linder met after the war. We interviewed them together in a Boston suburb in 2007.
They talk about the regimentation in the Navy.
Their story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
Northampton, Massachusetts, native Myrtle Bean saw WAVES officers training at Smith College, and was inspired to enlist in 1944.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
It took enlisting in the WAVES to get Doris Marquez to leave her home state of Indiana.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
World War II started while WAVE Virginia Gillmore was in college, and she decided to enlist in the Navy. Here, she talks about her experiences.
Her story is part of our month of video countdown to the home video release of Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II.
WAVE Mary Bingham talks about enlisting in the WAVES and serving in the Navy.
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.
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.
