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Janet Coit Petrucci oral history transcription, 1998

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 238
Scope and Contents

Petrucci, Janet Coit, 1918-2005. Reminiscences of a WWII enlisted WAVE; Includes youth in East Providence, RI.;Worked as a hairdresser; Enlisted in the Navy in 1943for patriotic reasons; Trained at USNTS (WR) Bronx, N.Y.;Assigned to Sugar Camp, Dayton, Ohio, where she soldered wires; Assigned to Communica­ tions Intelligence, Washington, D.C., where she worked on breaking the Japanese Code; Supervi­ sor of her group; Lodged in WAVES quarters D; Social life; V:J Day; Married, January 1945; Discharged, November 1945; Comments on WAVES organization; WAVE reunion of Communi­ cation Specialists; Membership in WAVES National and Ocean State WAVES.

Dates: 1998

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  • Names: United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve X
  • Names: Petrucci, Janet Coit X