Author: Ross Nancy
Title: The Waves
Description: Henry Holt, 1944. Unstated. Hardcover. The Waves by Ross, Nancy The Story of the Girls in Blue Henry Holt, 1944. Hardback in good condition, NO dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cover shows slight signs of wear with some rubs at spine, owners name inside cover. The term WAVES was coined in short for Women accepted for volunteer emergency services, during WWII. Waves did every kind of job during the war from being accountants to teletype operators and everything possible in-between. Women working in these positions started in WWI and when the need arose with WWII the young women of America stepped up. This book contains a few notes on does and don't in pencil by its former owner and make interesting additional reading and give the flavor of the times. B&W photos and illustrations, test at back of book, Appendix's, index, 214 pages. This appears to be a book for new inductee. Good.

Keywords: WAVES, HISTORY OF WOMEN IN NAVY


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