Author: Margie Bedell-Burke

Navy WAVES 

WAVES in Formation for Inspection

March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments dress uniforms, inspection, WWII WAVES

Navy WAVES of World War II, lined up in dress uniforms, ready for inspection. Photo size: 2424 × 3000 Photo

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Navy WAVES 

WAVES Control Tower Operators Direct Air Traffic

March 4, 2017March 4, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft, airfield, airplanes, control tower, naval air station, WWII WAVES

Specialist (T) 3rd Class Dorothy Knee and Specialist (T) Genevieve Close direct aircraft arrivals and departures from the control tower

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Navy WAVES 

WAVES Director Inspects Salvage Facility in Hawaii

March 4, 2017March 4, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments hawaii, inspection, Navy WAVES, Pearl Harbor, WAVES Director, WWII WAVES

Captain Mildred H. McAfee, USNR, Director of the WAVES listens as Storekeeper 2nd Class Dorothy Oates explains her duties in

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Navy WAVES 

WAVES on Liberty in Honolulu Posing for Photo

March 4, 2017August 29, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments hawaii, Honolulu, liberty, WWII WAVES

Yeoman 3rd Class Margaret Jean Fusco photographs three fellow WAVES by King Kamehameha’s statue in Honolulu, Hawaii, circa spring 1945.

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Navy WAVES 

Portrait of WAVES Director Mildred H. McAfee

March 4, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Navy WAVES, portrait, WAVES Director, WWII WAVES

Portrait photograph, taken in 1942-43, of the first WAVES Director, Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee. During World War II, McAfee

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Navy WAVES 

WAVES Officers Unpacking En Route To Hawaii

March 4, 2017March 4, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments hawaii, Pearl Harbor, WAVES officers, WWII WAVES

Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Margaret Kyle and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) E.C. Day unpacking in their stateroom on board the transport that

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Navy WAVES 

WAVES At Home In Their D.C. Apartment House

March 4, 2017March 4, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments WAVES at home, WAVES quarters, WAVES uniforms, WWII WAVES

WWII Navy WAVES relax in their new quarters in a Washington, D.C., apartment house. They are (from left to right):

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Aircraft Workers 

Worker Takes Lunch Break at Douglas Aircraft Company

January 25, 2017March 4, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments California, civilian worker, douglas aircraft company, Long Beach, lunch break, lunchtime, war work, women workers

Worker enjoying her lunch break in the California sunshine at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach. October 1942.

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Aircraft Workers 

A-20 Bomber Being Riveted by Woman Worker

January 25, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments A-20 bomber, aircraft worker, douglas aircraft company, Long Beach, rosie the riveter

An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California. October

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Aircraft Workers 

Woman at Work on Motor at Douglas Aircraft

January 25, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft mechanic, aircraft worker, airplane mechanic, airplane motor, civilian worker, douglas aircraft company, Long Beach, war work

Woman at work on airplane motor at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California. October 1942. Photo size:

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