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l reasure Island WAVES Render 4.0 Service lo The U.S. navy

U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center

VOL. Ill - No. 25 TREASURE ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. AUGUST 5, 1944

Treasure Island WAVES at work. Pictured in lower left is Helen Cattani, SC3c, at Navy Radio School. Lucy Nelson, PhM2c, may be seen below doing research
who is one of two WA VE mess attendants to strike for cooks' rating. Looking work in the laboratory. She hopes to continue this type of work after the war.
clockwise may be seen first, Carolyn Rose, Sp(S)3c, keeping the log of WAVES Lower right is the only WA VE offset Printer in the United States, Lillian Goshorn,
barracks which is run like any well-ordered ship. Top left is Patricia Younkin, Ptr3c, working on photographic plates to be used in the printing of text-books.
Sp (M) Sc busy sorting enlisted men's mail for distribution. Nan Goeller, SK2c, Lower center shows Marion Davies, SK (D) 2c, the "D" standing for Disbursing;
may be seen at top center filling an order for screws, nuts and bolts. Top right this WAVE is checking a money list. Inset circle pictures Mary Dunn, Yeoman
shows Helen Doherty, RM2c, who received training in the branch of telegraphy first class, Captain's Writer in the Administration Building.
They can tell you with what care keepers are fighting
NAVY GIRLS ON TREASURE ISLAND they are sorted, handled and de- supplies and these are the measure
REPLACING VITALLY NEEDED MEN livered. Some of these girls were of any fighting unit.
mail clerks before entering service Torch Bearers
but many more have been trained Pharmacist's Mates and
Well Trained Via Short Wave by the Navy. They classify, sort, pital Apprentices are in a
WAVE radio operators are now and dispatch mail, many serve sense the torch bearers. For many
Waves Filling on duty at most of the shore sta- personnel at the post-office win- a sailor the light they carry has
tions. Theirs is the responsibility dows. They have an important job shown the way to tomorrow. They
Worthwhile Jobs for guarding the frequencies over in the maintenance of morale and are serving in all branches of the
which travel important Naval com- are handling it with speed and ac- medical service. Some gained valu-
Navy Girl! 1942 was the year munications. They get a thrill when curacy. able experience in the laboratory
when the first women joined Uncle they pick up the signals of those Nuts and Bolts and operating room and others in
Sam's fleet. They came to replace men they replaced, now on the Did you ever stop to think how the wards. Many will go on to be-
men vitally needed on the fighting Navy ships at sea. One of the most many millions of big and small come graduate nurses and re-
front that there might be a one technical of all ratings, radio op- articles are necessary to keep the search technjcians after the war,
hundred per cent fighting Navy at erators will have valuable experi- war going for one sixty-se ,ond but now they are doing a most
home as well as overseas. Today ence for peacetime occupations. minute -? Storekeepers can give important work in restoring our
they wear the same rates and hold Fan Mall you an idea. Nuts, bolts, sewing wounded to health. Their hours
the same rank as the Navy's men, Ask any of the girls who wear machines and fish lines, these are are long and their tasks difficult,
· -'ld here are a few of their jobs on the Specialist (M) rate what hap- just a few, and every piece must but . they all agree that the re-
sure Island. pens to your letters from home. be accounted for. WAVE store- ( Continued on page 4)