A Blog About Women Who Were Homefront Heroines: the WAVES of World War II
WAVES play bridge in Bartlett Hall at the boot camp in Iowa State Teacher’s College, Cedar Falls. Iowa State Teacher’s College (now Northern Iowa University) transitioned to a yeoman training facility in February 1943.
The Wayne Miller photograph comes from the National Archives.
WAVES in Washington, DC, hold a rally at the Washington Monument grounds. Rear Admiral F. L Reighmuth, Captain Mildred McAfee, Capt J. Howard Wellbrook and Lt. Frances Rich watch the rally.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
Admiral Ernest J. King and Captain Mildred McAfee open a rally with WAVES, via a nationwide broadcast on CBS Radio.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
Control Tower Operators at Naval Air Station Norfolk include WAVES.
The color photograph comes from the National Archives.
Code Class is in session at the Radio School at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Note the clock: the instructor (foreground) is timing the rate of sending messages with his left hand.
The Howard Liberman photo comes from the National Archives.
The (landlocked) ship service at the Naval Air Training Command in Norman, OK. “Ship service” is the Navy term for store.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
Elizabeth Reynard, who was tasked with organizing the training school (boot camp) at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York, was the first WAVE to receive a Naval decoration.
The newspaper clipping can be found in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.
The WAVES Newsletter from January 1945 (70 years ago this month) featured training with oxygen masks with WAVES and sailors.
Aviation Machinist Mates make the cover of the WAVES Newsletter from January 1944.
Happy 2015! This is the yearbook from Iowa State Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls (now Northern Iowa University),where the WAVES had a training school.
It comes from the college’s Archives and Special Collections.
Hinges of History 