Naval War College (U.S.)

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Colby, Virginia Downs, 1923. Youth in Glendale and La Crescenta, Calif.; Attended Glendale College as an art major; Enlisted in the Navy; Trained at U.S. Naval Training School (WR), Hunter College; Assigned to the Hospital Corps and trained at Chelsea Naval Hospital; Physician's Assistant, Bar Harbor and Brunswick, Maine, and Hickam Air Base, Oahu, Hawaii; VJ Day celebrations; Discharged in San Francisco; Significance of WAVES service; Postwar education, work, and family.

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Smith, Virginia, 1924-. Reminiscences of a WWII WAVE. Includes early years in Attleboro, Mass.; Training as Occu­ pational Therapist at Westbrook, Jr. College; Reaction to Pearl Harbor bombing, enlisted in WAVES in 1944; Description of training; Housing; Classes at U.S. Naval Training School (WR) Bronx, N.Y.; Assignment at St. Albans Naval Hospital and duties there; Social Life and recreation; Course in occupational therapy, Cornell Medical School; V:J Day celebrations in NYC; Assigned to Brooklyn Naval Hospital with rating of Pharmacist's Mate, Second Class; Discharged,September 1946; Enjoyed service in the WAVES; Postwarjobs and interests; Member WAVES Na­ tional and Ocean State WAVES.

Scope and Contents WAVES Officers. Horton, Mildred McAfee, CAPT, USNR Organization and training of WAVES during World War II; Director, WAVES, 1942-1945.Palmer,Jean, CAPT, USNR Education, Bryn Mawr College; Business Manager, Association ofjunior Leagues of America, New York, 14 years; Senior LT, Com 3, 1942; WAVE Representative, Enlisted Personnel Office.Hancock, joy Bright, CAPT, USN Enlisted with the Navy 1918; First Class Yeoman, Naval Superintending Constructor, Cam­ den, NJ., 1918; Naval Air Station, Cape May, NJ.; Captain's Writer, NAS, Gipe May, NJ.; Dis­ charged 1920; In England for one year; BuAer, Washington, D.C., 1921; Founder and Editor, Newsletter, BuAer, Washington, D.C., 1925; Representative, BuAer, Washington, D.C.; Enrolled in the Navy 1942; Editorial Research, BuAer; Publicity Agent, BuAer; Liaison Officer, WAVES, BuAer; Women's Reseive Representative Policies for WAVES in Naval Aviation; Director, WAVES, 1946-1953; Retired, 1954. Shelly, MaryJosephine, LCDR, USNR Assistant, Dean of Students, University of Chicago, Ill.;Assistant to the President, Educational Administration, Bennington College, Vt.; LCDR, WAVES, BuPers, Washington, D.C., 1942-1945 (was in charge of WAVE officer recruitment) ; Bennington College, Vt., 1945-1951).Stratton, Dorothy, CAPT, USCG Women's Reserve, Navy; B.A., Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kans.; Master's Degree, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.;Ph.D., Columbia University; Dean of Women, Purdue University;...

Scope and Contents WAVES Officers. Crandall, Elizabeth B., CDR, USNR Graduate work, Western Reserve University; Volunteer, Grenfell Medical Mission, Labrador; Graduate work, Stanford; Dean of Women, Idaho; Personnel Staff, Stanford; Women's Director, District Headquarters, 1944-1945; Twelfth Naval District; Retired.Kitchen, Etta Belle, CDR, USN Attorney; Lt. (jg), Thirteenth Naval District, Seattle, Wash.; Bremerton, 1946; Civilian 1946- 1948; LCDR USN, Naval Training Board, 1948; Personnel Office, WAVES, San Diego. Calif., 1951; Office of Performance Division, BuPers, Washington, D.C.; CDR, Reserve Training Department, WAVES, San Diego; CO, Recruit Training Command, Bainbridge, Md.Lenihan, Rita, CAPT, USN College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ.; Columbia University; Home lighting engineer, six years; WAVES, Washington, D.C., 1941; Master's degree, George Washington University, Wash­ ington, D.C.; Commissioned, 1943; Plans and Policy Division, BuPers, Washington, D.C.Rich, Frances L., CDR, USNR Engineering Draftsman, Lockheed Aircraft Co., Burbank, Calif.; Drill and Discipline Officer, USNMS (WR), Northampton, Mass., 1943; Lt. (jg), Communications Department, WAVES, Washington, D.C., 1943-1944; LCDR, Special Assistant, CAPT Mildred McAfee, WAVES, Wash­ ington, D.C., 1944-1945.Rigby, Eleanor Grant, CDR, USNR Graduated, Smith College, 1918; Connecticut Defense Council, 1941-1942; Lt. (jg), Assis­ tant, Regimental Commander, LT Crandall, WAVES,...

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World War II. "What did you do in the War, Grandma?" An oral history of Rhode Island women during World War IIwritten by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School and supported by a grant from the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and co-5pon­ sored by the South Kingstown School Department and the Rhode Island Historical Society, with an Introduction by Linda Wood and an essay on Women and World War IIby Dr. Sharon H. Strom and Linda Wood. Interviews focus on the reactions of local women to the war, their involvement as volunteers and on active duty, pacifism, life on the home front, the end of the war and the impact it had on their lives as well as the social changes it brought.

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Triest, Willard G., CAPT, USN, 1905-. Family background; Education, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Joined Civil Engineer Corps, 1941; Budget and Project Officer, Quonset Point, R.I.; Helped to design and plan logistics for refueling base, Bobcat, Christmas Islands, with description of construction activities on Ascen­ sion Island, 1941; XO, Fifty-seventh Battalion, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1942; Trouble Shooter, Twenty-seventh Seabee Battalion, Tulagi, including discussion of their construction pro­ jects on Emirau and Guadalcanal; Return to the United States, Camp Part, Calif., with Battalion 27; Okinawa, construction of roads and supply depots, during battle with the Japanese for the is­ land; Visit toJapan after surrender, 1945; Visit to Korea, 1945.

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Bundy served in the Navy as a career submarine officer. He served as the third African-American Naval officer to command a submarine with the distinction of being the first to advance from the enlisted ranks to earn a commission and become a submarine skipper.

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Fitch discusses his career in the US Marine Corps as an aviator, billet assignments, and his promotion to Lieutenant General. Includes his growing up years in Florida, military education, various squadrons, assignment as Deputy Chief of Staff, Naval Aviation, 1982-1984, comments on military and political leaders he interacted with, and retirement in 1984.

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Paynter, William, 1916-. Youth in Philadelphia, PA; graduate of Trinity College, 1937;joined the U.S. Navy in 1941; PT Boat training, Melville, R.I.; Assigned as CO, PT boat 362, Squadron 19 in Somoe-Somoe, Southwest Pacific; Won the Navy Cross for rescuing the crew of a disabled PT boat; Promotion to lieutenant; Executive Officer, Squadron 19; Assigned to PT Squadron 40, Melville.RI.; Discharged in 1945;Joined the Naval Reserves; Retired as a commander; Civilian career as a re­ porter for the Hartford CouranL

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Letter from Rear Admiral William S. Sims, President, Naval War College, concerning review of galley proof of a book by Goodrich and schedule of activities, January 29, 1921. Penciled notes on verso.