thank you.The Department of Defense pays tribute each year to the women who pushed gender-defined barriers. their must be so other record of her service. please feel free to email me with any suggestions that might help. a simple acknowledgement of her service during ww2. my question to anyone out there who can help is what can i do? they got back to in less than 24 hrs which is not much time at all for a through search. they said they searched under my mothers maiden name also (mcdermott). they said they checked, but its up to me to come up with her service number. since a fire destroyed files in the archives in st louis the calverton personnel will not acknowledge my mothers status as a navy wave saying it would be inappropriate to do so. I wanted her service listed on her marker along with my dad, who was a sergeant in the marines in ww2 also. she was a navy wave in ww2 and is interred at calverton national in riverhead ny. My email is anyone out there was friends with Lola Tilden please contact me via my email. If you would like those forms please let me know. If there is anyone out there who would like to film your family member/friend men and women, and send it into the Smithsonian Institute there are some forms you need to fill out for submission. I am a flight attendant and can get to your location. I would love to reach out and fine WAVES that would like to be interviewed and let me tape their story. I got the most extra credit in the WHOLE class. He would give us extra credit if I got WWII vets to come in and talk and be recorded. In high school I took a class on WWII vets, my teacher Tommy Tegge was my teacher. I learned a lot from her, though at 22 she thought I had "Lofty thoughts." I suppose I did at that young age. She could not remember which one of the "girls" serving with her borrowed her typewriter and wrote it. When going through hr chests full of stuff, we came across this poem. My mother, Bettie Helen Boyce was in the Waves during WWII. By the end of the war, over 84,000 women served in WAVES with 8,000 female officers, which constituted 2.5% of the US Navy's personnel strength. In late 1944, the WAVES program began accepting African American women at the ratio of one black woman for every 36 white women enlisted in the WAVES program. Secretarial and clerical jobs still made up a large portion of WAVES positions, but thousands of WAVES personnel performed other jobs such as aviation mechanics, photographers, control tower operators, and intelligence personnel. While their WW1 counterparts served only as nurses and secretaries, these WW2-era women took up far more responsibilities. Even as President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Navy Women's Reserve Act into law on 30 July 1942, little did people know that female service in the US Navy would become something that would last far beyond the "emergency".īy mid-1943, 27,000 American women served in the WAVES program. Despite the resistance from conservative officers, however, the demand was clearly there for example, as early as Jan 1942, the Office of Naval Intelligence was recruiting female college students. The reason for that was due to political resistance from many who did not believe women had a place in the US Navy, and for the program to take place, creative intrigue had to be used. The use of the word "emergency", however, signified that when the effort to resurrect female service was in the planning stages, US Navy brass thought female service would cease when the emergency, or the war, came to and end. 23 years later, in early Aug 1942, female officer Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee was commissioned into the US Navy amidst World War II to head up the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service program (WAVES). In 1919, a small group of women served with the United States Navy as nurses, answering to male officers.
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