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Assembled bombs and munitions. Sewed parachutes and uniforms and trended wounded troops. One time i worked seven weeks, seven days without a day off. It makes you proud. They were the wives or the sisters of men who were serving. And one of the women i spoke to, she was a riveter. And she said when she was riveting that plane, she was thinking of her brother, and she was thinking, if i dont get this rivet right, just right, he could die. More than just a job. Right. It was an inadvertent resolution. What is it that causes women to suddenly be brought into the armed forces like they were . We c...

The Women's Naval Reserve of the U.S. Naval Reserve was created in order to enlist and train women for shore duty during World War II, thus releasing me...

WAVES, acronym of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, military unit, established on July 30, 1942, as the U.S. Navy’s corps of female members. During World War II some 100,000 WAVES served in a wide variety of capacities, ranging from performing essential clerical duties to serving as instructors for male pilots-in-training. Initially, they did not serve overseas. Several thousand WAVES also participated in the Korean War. The corps continued its separate existence until 1978. The navy’s policies toward women were in some ways quite progressive. Unlike the army’s female bran...

Three families who lost a loved one look back at a year of isolation Betty Breunig took a year off after her first two years at Radcliffe College and taught English in Japan, which was still under American occupation. Courtesy photos Barbara and Fay Burnham in a 2002 photograph. The couple was married since 1954. Juanita and John Claflin in an undated photograph. Married since 1956, the couple died within one week of each other earlier this year. Published: 3/9/2021 4:35:39 PM Tammy Vaughan and her siblings headed south to Florida from central Vermont in mid-January to see their father, wh...

Three families who lost a loved one look back at a year of isolation Betty Breunig took a year off after her first two years at Radcliffe College and taught English in Japan, which was still under American occupation. (Family photograph) Barbara and Fay Burnham in a 2002 photograph -- the couple had been married since 1954. (Family photograph) Juanita and John Claflin in an undated photograph. Married since 1956, the couple died within one week of each other earlier this year. (Family photograph) Modified: 3/7/2021 9:35:43 PM Tammy Vaughan and her siblings headed south to Florida from centra...