Show l Skirted Sailors I I Enough officers and to man a maJor task force including a battleshIp two large aIrcraft carriers two heavy crUIsers and fifteen destroyers have been released to naval battle stations by women appoInted for voluntary emergency service So successful was the first year s 5 experiment of utilizing women at naval shore posts that the navy Intends Intend's to raIse theIr number from to 91 by the end of 1944 The success of theIr invasion a serVIce whIch was once strIctly all male has greatly changed the navy s plans regardIng the women's reserve Originally theIr activities were largely to be confined to office work but today they are manning control towers at aIrfields serving at nerve centers of naval communIcatIons restoring health to the wounded at naval hospItals parachutes teach teaching mg ing blInd flying doing research work of all types and other vItal work They learn to work together wIth mIlItary snap and effi efficIency efficiency To those who are ambItIous there IS always the opportunIty for further edu educatIon education catIon and more responsibility Ity via Ia offs officers cers training schools On the first bIrth bIrthday birthday day of the WAVES they were told by Ad Admiral miral Ernest J KIng commander t 11 in chief U S fleet and chIef of naval 1 operatIons that C the expectations of the navy m in you have been JustIfied by your hard work and SIncere devotIon to duty You who are members of the women's reserve have won the respect of the naval serVIce by your acceptance of mIlI- mIlI mIlItary tary ness for responsIbIlIty k an already valuable con con- contrIbutIon contribution to the work of z winning the war h hf f gak Chauffeuring gw h F t 1 k f a t r rt z G d da t Y r i Aeronautics Technician Donna Lacher of Ensign Margaret Cameron of Chicago Ill gIVes directions to Houston Terns Tetas at the wheel of student pilot in II a link trainer the command car of the navy bu buas buas as he would get them by radio reau of ordnance in Washing The instrument before her rec ton D C Driving l is one of her his course minor duties as a liaison officer r Photography ka a 4 4 I i ia a w I y r v I II WAVE Anne LIVesay was II a Seaman Margaret Barnes at photo laboratory technician be Anaco la near Washington I fore joining the navy She's do DC D C checks the weather board boarding mg ing the same work worT for Uncle Sam which informs pilots as to the now weather on their route A AChe Che h s sN j N sr C Ca a Bs Designing Ensign Martha Sing works on Ensign Elizabeth Gerrard a blue print A graduates o f the formerly II a research technician at University of Michigan she also Northwestern University meas measures investigates the effect of wind windon on ures the amount of carbon airplane designs by using model Ide In II a gas at the naval medical planes in a wind tunnel center Bethesda Maryland Many of the skirted sail sad Recreational facilities ors are learning to use me methe have not been forgotten the language of the At the Great Lakes navy which IS vastly vastly station there are different from coed i movies happy slang ang They hit u sours softball the deck for i sailing and near chow OJ OJA A call x by golf courses is called a The WAVE bulkhead pushing the Floors aTe are i pencil is Con OJ x Ing docks stance Gorski |