Author: Margie Bedell-Burke

Navy WAVES 

WAVES Yeoman Exits Ship’s Gun Mount Door

September 12, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments color photo, ship tour, twin gun mount, USS Missouri, World War II WAVES, yeoman

Yeoman Third Class Betty Martin exiting the rear door of a 5/38 twin gun mount on the USS Missouri (BB-63)

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WAVES and Sailors Check Out Classroom Training Materials

September 12, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments classroom, NAS Memphis, sailors, training center, training materials, WAVES students

Students at the Naval Air Technical Training Center at NAS Memphis, including both WAVES and sailors, checking out classroom training

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WAVES Yeoman Transcribing With a Dictaphone

September 12, 2017September 12, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Dictaphone, dictation, transcriber, WAVES, yeoman

World War II WAVES Yeoman transcribing dictation from Dictaphone. Photo size: 2791 × 2268 Photo source: Naval History and Heritage

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Air Navigation Instructor Shoots Stars with Bubble Sextant

September 12, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments air navigation instructor, Air Navigator, bubble sextant, California, Camp Kearney, duty, Florida, Hollywood, Naval Auxiliary Air Station, octant, oklahoma, operational flight, Shawnee, WAVES officers

Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Jane M. Falls, USNR(W) gets ready to shoot the stars with a bubble sextant (or octant) on

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WAVES Recruits at Hospital Training School

September 12, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Bethesda, Maryland, Naval Hospital, Pharmacist's Mate, recruits, striker badges, swab, WAVES, WWII poster

WAVES recruits in the training school at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, enjoy a joke with one of

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Graduating Class of WAVES Yeoman Training School

September 11, 2017February 21, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments commanding officer, Georgia, graduation, Milledgeville, Naval Training School, WAVES school, yeoman

New Yeoman WAVES stand at attention during the graduation review at the Naval Training School in Milledgeville, Georgia. Lieut. Comdr.

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WAVES of the Air Transport Squadron 12 (VR-12)

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Air Transport Squadron, link trainer, naval air station, quonset hut, Quonset Point, rating badges, Rhode Island, specialist, squadron, VR-12

First group of WAVES to report for duty with VR-12, 24 July 1945. They are in the Link trainer building,

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Mildred McAfee at Female Officer Commissioning Ceremony

September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Coast Guard, Coast Guard SPARS, Commissioning Ceremony, Hunter College, La Guardia, Mildred McAfee, Navy WAVES, New York City, Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, training school

Commissioning ceremony at the new training school for female Navy (WAVES) and Coast Guard (SPARS) officers located at Hunter College

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Sailors and WAVES Enjoy a Boat Ride While on Leave

September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Aviation Machinist's Mate, boat ride, leave, liberty, Louisiana, naval air station, New Orleans, Pharmacist's Mate, rowboat, sailors, WAVES

Sailors and WAVES from Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, enjoy a boat ride while on leave. It appears that

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WAVES Officers Watch Ship Coming Out of Building Dock

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments building dock, christening, Mildred H. McAfee, Newport News, USS Franklin, Virginia, WAVES officers

The USS Franklin (CV-13) is floated out of her building dock immediately after christening, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and

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