Friday, January 12, 2018

Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs and WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service


"Homefront Heroines" follows a group of quirky, individual and determined women who decided to go where no woman had gone before -- into the Navy as WAVES. It tells the story of the more than 100,000 women who joined the Navy during World War II.





http://www.homefrontheroines.com/exhibits/the-media-campaign/magazines/military-women-as-cover-girls/

Or read a cool book https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-all-girl-filling-stations-last.html  titled The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

Senator Barry Goldwater was a commander of a WAVE detachment during WW2, and while as a senator tried for many years to get them access to the VA... which kept getting shot down by the other congressmen... but he persisted until he was a very senior senator, and finally either wore them down, waited for less conservative senate members, or finally convinced the naysayers to pass it.

3 comments:

  1. The cute young lady on the LIVE cover is Shirley Slade.

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    1. For what? You're welcome of course, but, I don't know what you're appreciating

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