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WAVES Singing Platoon- early April 1945
Led by Specialist (S) Nancy Ann Lynch
Regimental Review on a snowy morning
USS Hunter -Bronx, New York. US Naval Training School (Women's Reserve)
WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) existed only for World War II and were the first women in history to be actual members of the U.S. Navy. The author enlisted in 1944, and was assigned to train and instruct recruits at the only U.S. Naval Training Station for WAVES in the country. This self-published book gives a comprehensive history of the formation and training of WAVES, and recounts the difficulty that nationally prominent women educators and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt encountered in having women accepted in “A Man’s Navy”. Castellano, in both the book and her lectures, recalls her experiences with the dedicated and patriotic women who traveled to boot camp in New York “from sea to shining sea” to become WAVES.
LOOKING BACK AT THE WAVES: A Chronicle of 90,000 Navy Women of WWII. Copyright 2007
Book catalogued in:
Library of Congress-2007. U.S. Navy Library, Naval Historical Center, Washington DC-2009. Women’s Military Memorial- entrance of Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia-2009. National Navy UDT SEAL Museum- Ft. Pierce, FL- 2010.
Also catalogued in Morristown/Morris Township Library(NJ)-Chatham Library(NJ)-Madison Library(NJ)-Denville Library(NJ)-Jefferson Twp. Library(NJ) Randolph Library(NJ)- Morristown High School Library(NJ)- Morris Plains Historical Museum(NJ)-Lehman College Library/President’s Office (Bronx,NY)-Montclair State UniversityLibrary/ President’s Office NJ)- University of Colorado Art Dept.-University of Arizona Music Dept.-Christian School Library-(Raleigh, NC) Leonard Lief Library, Lehman College, Special Collections Unit (located at former Hunter College Bronx Campus, site of USNTS(WR)1943-1946)-Hunter College Library,(Park Avenue, NYC)Special Collections Unit-The Roosevelt House at Hunter College, NYC, Historical Society of the City of New York, Central Park West (arrangements in progress for WWII Exhibit, “V Was for Victory”- October 2012). Morris County Historical Society, Acorn Hall, Morristown,NJ-”Over Here and Over There ” (WWII exhibit: June 2011-March 2012). The Roosevelt House At Hunter College-East 65th Street- New York, NY. Texas State University Library,San Marcos, TX -University of Colorado Art Dept.-American School of Paris Library-Paris, France.
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