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The Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service?better known in history as the WAVES?were the crucial women?s Naval Reserve component of the U.S. fleet during its most epochal years?World War II. The WAVES were in many ways unprecedented, and the obstacles they faced, both minor and significant, were numerous. From 1969 to 1971, Naval Institute oral historian John T. Mason Jr. and his West Coast operative, Etta Belle Kitchen, sought to recapture some of this unique aspect of the story of the Navy in the Second World War, and in the process preserved some vital insights into what amounted to a precursor to the gender-integrated force of today. The WAVES recollections they gathered comprise two volumes of essential primary-source history.

Reminiscences of the WAVES vol. I

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      Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
      Publication Date: 7/15/1983
      ISBN13: 9781682692615, 978-1682692615
      ISBN10: 1682692612

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      The Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service?better known in history as the WAVES?were the crucial women?s Naval Reserve component of the U.S. fleet during its most epochal years?World War II. The WAVES were in many ways unprecedented, and the obstacles they faced, both minor and significant, were numerous. From 1969 to 1971, Naval Institute oral historian John T. Mason Jr. and his West Coast operative, Etta Belle Kitchen, sought to recapture some of this unique aspect of the story of the Navy in the Second World War, and in the process preserved some vital insights into what amounted to a precursor to the gender-integrated force of today. The WAVES recollections they gathered comprise two volumes of essential primary-source history.

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