Navy WAVES veteran Peggy Lutz is celebrating ... though about a third of the women who served in WAVES during WWII had naval aviation duties. Lutz was one of them. She was assigned to air traffic ...

The military insignia of a WWII Navy dentist from Boone have found their way back to active duty on the uniforms of officers ...

The proposal to establish the WAVES as an integrated branch of the Navy was hotly debated, according to the National World War II Museum ... reception as a woman in uniform was overwhelmingly ...

But as more and more men in the U.S. Navy deployed overseas during World War II, someone ... women in uniform performed more than 200 different jobs. Some 100,000 WAVES served in a variety of ...

They were young with a patriotic drive that led them to enlist in the Navy during the height of World War II. At Bremerton ... Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). Mullis says her memory is ...

Guthrie was sitting on the front steps of her family's home one evening in 1943 when two Navy recruiters approached her with a pitch to enlist and serve the country's World War II efforts.

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis woman known as one of the first women to serve in the Navy during World War II has died. Hellen Guthrie passed ... In August 1943, Guthrie became one of the first WAVES ...