Naval War College (U.S.)

McCoy, Mary Lynch, 1917-. Reminiscences of a WAVE who served in WWII. Includes growing up in Newport, R.I.; Gradu­ ation from R.I. College; Teaching in Newport; Enlisted in the WAVES, Officer Corps, 1943; Training at USNMS (WR) Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; Assigned to Communications Of­ fice, First Naval District, Boston, Mass.; Advanced training, Mt. Holyoke College; Assigned to Communications Office Newport Naval Base, Washington, D.C., and Yokosuka,Japan; Life inJa­ pan; Marriage in 1952 in Japan; Discharged from Navy, 1952; Navy Wife; Impact of WAVES ser­ vice on her life; Teaching in Newport, 1966-1983.

Maguire, Mary, 1918. Reminiscences of service as a WAVE officer in Communications, Eastern Sea Frontier New York, 1943-1945, and Eleventh Naval District, San Diego, Calif., 1945; Includes growing up years in Providence, RI.; Education at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.; Worked at NE Telephone Co.; Moved to Newport, R.I.; Joined the WAVES in December 1942; Training and indoctrination at USNTS, (WR), Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; Visit of Eleanor Roosevelt; assignment to Eastern Sea Frontier as a courier in the Operational Command Department; Visit of Duke of Windsor; Sub sightings; Recreation, D-Day; Attitude of men toward WAVES; Transfer to San Diego, Calif., and Eleventh Naval District; Discharged in December 1945; Reached rank of Lieutenant; Impact of WAVES on her life; Postwar career at Telephone Co.; MLS degree at Simmons College; Librarian and director of Library Services, Cumberland, RI.; WAVE reunion in 1968 and WAVE friendships.

Leckie, Mary McLaughlin Murphy, 1921-. Reminiscences of a WWII Marine (WR). Includes youth in Providence and Barrington, RI.; Attended Katherine Gibbs School; Worked for the Red Cross, Providence, R.I.; Joined the Marines 1944; Negative parental reaction; Basic training at Camp Lejeune, N.C.; Classes and marching; Liked uniform; Assigned as a clerk to Cherry Point, N.C., MAS in Combat Condi­tioning Department; Social life; Saw Tyrone Power; Disastrous fire that killed several women Marines; Marriage in November 1944; VJ Day Celebrations; Discharged in October 1945; Marine Corps a positive experience; Settled in New York; Returned to Barrington in 1984.

Howard, Mrs. John (Mary Rowan Belknap), 1917-2003. Reminiscences of a Navy family, including commen ts on her grandfather George Belknap,and highlights of her father's career, life in Newport in the 1920sand 1930s, the fleet in Newport,the Naval War College, the Naval Torpedo Station and Admiral William S. Sims.

Part of the History of the Navy in Narragansett Bay oral history program.

Murphy, Mary Winter, 1921-. Reminiscences of a WAVE officer who served during WWU and in the postwar period. In­ cludes years in Boston, Mass.; Studied to be an Occupational Therapist, Boston, Mass.; Worked briefly then joined the WAVES in May 1945; Attended WOCS, Arlington, Va., stressful experi­ ence;Joined Medical Service Corps; Assigned to USNH, Great Lakes, Ill., as Occupational Thera­ pist; Social life; Assigned to USNH, Sampson, N .Y. with TB patients; Worked with private industry to develop procedures for patients; Assigned to Brooklyn NH when it was dosing; Assigned to Jacksonville NH as OT, 1947-1951; Social activities; Married Navy Pilot in 1951; Navy Physicians didn't know how to utilize Occupational Therapists; Travel to Cuba, New Orleans, La.;work after marriage; Navy wife for twenty-three years; WAVES service a positive experience.

Black and white 11x14 photograph of Members of the Naval War College Personnel Section pose for a group portrait in front of the college in Newport, Rhode Island (now Luce Hall) in 1918. Those pictured are identified on the reverse of the photo.

Gold discusses his service in the Army Air Corps during WWII as a navigator on a bomber and a POW in Germany for eighteen months; he includes a discussion of his youth, his training in the AAF, missions over Germany, life in the prison camp in Germany, rescue by the Russians, return to the USA, education and medical practice. Comment on PTSD, war, and veterans organizations.

DiMascola joined the WAVES in 1944. She trained at Hunter College, then had yeoman school training at Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She was assigned to Newport, RI, Naval Training Station where she was secretary to the Commanding Officer. Public Work Department. She was transferred to Great Lakes NTS where she worked in a demobilization center.

8x10 color photo of a model for expansion

8x10 color photo of a model for expansion