WAVES at a Navy air terminal while en route to Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kansas, via a Navy transport plane. Most of the enlisted WAVES are strikers for the rate of Specialist (Transport Airman), and are accompanied by their instructor, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Helen J. Merrill. Those present are (from left to right): Seaman 2nd Class Gloria Marx; Seaman 2nd Class Marilyn Wheeler; Seaman 2nd Class Helen Ranlett; Seaman 2nd Class Gale Collier; LtJG Merrill; Yeoman 2nd Class Carolyn Fish; Yeoman 2nd Class Helen Niravelli; and Seaman 2nd Class Margaret Chapman. November 1944.
