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Name: WAVES Headquarters: WAVES Systems Corp. 480 Pleasant Street Lee, MA 01238 Date of Birth/Dates Active: July 1942 - July 1945 Job Name/Branch of Military: Navy Commanding Officer: Mildred McAfee

Friends
WACs WACs stands for Women's Army Corps.

Mildred H. McAfee Mildred H. McAfee is the director of WAVES

Mary L. Redfern Mary L. Redfern was the first member of WAVES to participate in the jump required for the fulfillment in the parachute riggers course.

Rosie the Riveter Rosie the Riveter is a character made up to encourage women to help with war efforts.

Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt helped with the creation of WAVES.

About Me
Hello. We are the WAVES. WAVES stands for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. We were established on the 21st of July in 1942 by the US Congress. We were signed into law by the U.S. president on the 30th of July in 1942. Mildred McAfee was our first director.

Women have served in every single American conflict, but WAVES did not earn a spot in the Navy until WWII. After WWI, only a few active Navy nurses. When the WAVES started recruiting women, there was an overwhelming amount of eager women.

By the middle of 1943, about twenty-seven thousand women served in WAVES. We have jobs as secretaries, nurses, photographers, control power operators, and aviation mechanics. At the end of the war, we have over eighty-four thousand women that served. On the 12th of July, 1948, a law that gave women the right to status in the military was passed by the US congress.

You can become part of WAVES if you meet all of these following points:
 * Are a women twenty-five to thirty years old
 * Do not have a dependent child of less than eighteen years
 * Have average hearing
 * 20/20 vision
 * Have the ability to speak
 * Can react well in pressuring situations

Wall Posts

 * October 30, 1942. Ensign May Herrmann speaks with a few women about the Navy Women's Reserve.


 * February 8, 1943. The first food is served for the women at Hunter College campus, which is the basic training center for WAVES.
 * February 28, 1943. There is a flag raised at Hunter College campus after it was named the basic training center for WAVES


 * December 22, 1944. Harriet Ida Pickens and Frances Wills become the Navy's first African-American WAVES officers.

“ WAVES: Women in the WW2 US Navy.” __World War II Database__. 2004. 1 Apr. 2016 

“Photos of WWII Navy WAVES.” __Women of World War II__. Burke Enterprises. 2016. 1 Apr. 2016 

“The Navy’s History of Making WAVES.” __America’s Navy__. 2013. 2 Apr. 2016 