Smooth Sailors
Iowa WAVES Learn the Ropes At Cedar Falls
More than 9000 members of the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Navy have finished their work at the naval training school on the Iowa State teachers college campus in Cedar Falls since the WAVES training school was established there in December, 1942. Among them have been many Iowans, as well as young women from all other states, from Alaska, the Virgin Islands, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico and Canada. The Iowans pictured are in the class now completing its training.
Arlene Van Buskirk of Storm Lake learns to tie a bowline with the aid of this special diagram. Miss Van Buskirk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A Van Buskirk, is a Seaman, second class. She formerly worked as a secretary.
Source: Des Moines Register, July 30, 1944 (photo included)
Storm Lake Wave
Arlene Van Buskirk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Van Buskirk of Storm Lake, Ia., is on her way to England where she will be stationed at the headquarters of Adm. Richard L. Conolly, commander-in-chief in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean areas. She is a WAVE.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, September 27, 1944 (photo included)
Storm Lake Girl Among 12 WAVES Now in England
Southampton, Eng. -- The first 12 enlisted WAVES ever to serve in Europe his Southampton Wednesday to the sound of Yankee wolf whistles.
More than 100 American service men massed around the gangplank of the United Sates transport General Maurice Rose as blue uniformed girls marches ashore.
The WAVES, all in their 20's, will serve in United States navy offices in London as clerks, storekeepers and signal operators.
Among the girls was Chief Yeoman, Arlene Van Buskirk of Strom Lake, Ia.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, September 29, 1944
GIFTS FOR FOLKS BACK HOME -- Christmas comes early for boys and girls overseas who want to send gifts back home. Among the first shoppers in England where they are stationed were the WAVES' Yeoman Arlene Van Buskirk, of Storm Lake, Iowa and the Army's Sgt. Marlin Keller, of Carlisle, Pa., pictured here shopping in London.
Source: Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa) December 22, 1950 (photo included)
