A Blog About Women Who Were 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.
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.
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.
Readers of our blog are familiar with WAVE Dorothy Turnbull Stewart, who served as a recruiter in Texas.
Today, you can hear from her via 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.
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