Salute by a WAVE to 5 Recruits
OFF TO JOIN THE WAVES, the five young women in civilian clothes in the picture take a lesson in saluting from Yeoman Third Class Maurene Munger, 1921 First avenue SE. The Waves-to-be are (left to right) Phyllis Gress, 203 First avenue SW; Betty Brown, 1220 Third avenue SE; Doris Fink, 1406 First street NW; Gertrude Hoyle, 2208 Fruitland boulevard SW, and Claire Roberts, 1015 Third avenue SE. Yeoman Munger, home on leave, will leave soon for duty at the Atlanta, Ga., naval air base. The picture was taken Monday afternoon as the 5 entrained for Des Moines.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 18, 1943 (photo included)
WAVE ENLISTEES Velma Rose Love, left, 252 Twenty-fourth avenue SW, Doris Fink, 1406 First street NW and Phyllis Green, 203 First avenue SW, admire the new summer dress uniforms of WAVE Yeomans Ethel Vessey, left and Helen Gallagher right. Yeoman Vessey and Gallagher, who are stationed in Des Moines, wore their summer whites for the first time at the mass Wave-Spar enlistment Friday evening in Cedar Rapids.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 29, 1943 (photo included)
Doris Fink, former machine operator for Quaker Oats Co. at Cedar Rapids, who was one of the 23 Iowans to join the WAVES at Waterloo Friday night, learns about the service from Helen Gallagher, yeoman third class, who is stationed in Des Moines.
Source: The Des Moines Register, May 30, 1943 (photo included)
ALL SET TO BEGIN ... their new occupation as nursemaids to overgrown navy planes and engines are Waves Marian Lemon, left, Doris Fink and Gertrude Hoyle, all of Cedar Rapids. They were home on leave last week following completion of their course at the Norman, Okla., naval air technical training school and are now on their way to Pensacola, Fla., to begin work.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, December 19, 1943 (photo included)
