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. dan rode says: 03:13:36 PM my mom julia rode passed in 2014. Looking forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, Molly DunnĨ0. My email is If 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. Molly Dunn says: 01:50:58 PM My friend was Lola Tilden. “The only ones who don’t”, he said, “Are either fools or knaves”, So with a sigh of sweet submission, SHE ENLISTED IN THE WAVES!!Ģ6. Her lip began to tremble, And the color left her face. In her breath there was a flutter, And her heart began to race. It’s girls like you that cheer us And send us on our way, There’d be a lot more like you If we could have our way. For when we’re in the service, We miss a lot, you see. His voice came soft, compelling, “It’s the only thing to do.” With this word of assurance, She said, “It can’t be wrong” Come on let’s do it quickly, I’ve waited now too long.” He said, “You son’t regret it, It means a lot to me. Now the fly was very timid, And she didn’t want to go But the spider was so handsome And his urging touched her so, With one last look at freedom She stepped into the room, As the door closed gently after, She realized her doom! Oh! She looked at him for guidance It was up to him she knew. Her heart began to flutter, She wanted so to flee, For the spider was a sailor And her fate was plain to see. “Won’t you step into the parlor”, And his look was very sly. “Won’t you step into my parlor”, Said the spider to the fly. 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. Kristin sipperley says: 05:47:57 PM 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.ġ8. 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.