A Blog About Women Who Were Homefront Heroines: the WAVES of World War II
Today we begin a series of posts about WAVES boot camp at Hunter College.
WAVE boots learn about the chain of command at the USS Hunter, the boot camp training facility in the Bronx, New York. USS Hunter was the former Hunter College, a women’s college commandeered for the WAVES for the duration of the war in early 1943.
The photograph comes from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
WAVES in the dining hall during boot camp in Cedar Falls, Iowa, early 1943. They are (from left): Paula Weis, Ann Walus, Edna Brown and Esther Swenson.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
WAVES Bernice Sansbury and Violet Falkum work on the engine of an SNJ, in today’s entry in our series of photographs of WAVES at work in the Naval aviation. The photograph of the aviation machinist’s mates was taken in Jacksonville, Florida, in September 1943.
The photograph comes from the national archives.
In today’s entry in our series of photographs of WAVES at work in the Naval aviation, WAVE Evelyn Schultz works in the waist blister of a PBY patrol bomber. The photograph of the aviation machinist’s mate was taken in Jacksonville, Florida, in September 1943.
The photograph comes from the national archives.
WAVES Parachute Rigger Mary Arnold puts a parachute in an SNJ at NAS Jacksonville, FL c. September 1943. The photo comes from the U.S. National Archives.
WAVE Aviation Machinist’s Mate Evelyn Schultz works in the waist blister of a PBY patrol bomber in today’s entry in our series of photographs of WAVES at work in the Naval aviation. This September 1943 photograph was taken at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
This latest image in our series of photographs from September 1943 of WAVES at work in the Naval aviation comes from Naval Air Station Jacksonville. Here, WAVES Doris Brooks and Nikki Foster scrape the struts of a PBY Airleon section.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
Continuing our series of photographs from September 1943 of WAVES at work in the Naval aviation, today’s image shows WAVE Bernice Sansbury adjusting the spark plugs on n SNJ training plane at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
An unidentified WAVE pharmacist’s mate on the job, at the dispensary at Naval Air Station Seattle c. 1943. The photograph comes from the National Archives.
WAVE Elvina Foland is checking the time table to see what time she’ll need to be there to catch her train, at the station in Norman, Oklahoma, c. 1943.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
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