Naval War College (U.S.)

Youth in Pennsylvania; Graduate, Mount Holyoke College, 1937;Employment, Saturday Eve­ ning Post and the Campfire Girls;joined the WAVES, 1942; Attended U.S. Naval Midshipmen' s School, (WR) , 1942; Public Relations Officer, U.S. Naval Midshipmen's School; Worked on a film with Fox Movie Tone; Assigned to educational services, U.S. Naval Hospital, St. Albans, N.Y.; V:J Day, New York City; Discharged, 1945; Postwar life in New York, Annapolis, and activities.

Beddoe, Marie Purcell, 1919. Youth; Education at Pembroke College; Employment as a Social Worker, Providence, RI.; Joined SPARS as an officer, 1943; Trained at U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn.; As­sistant Aide to Navigation Officer, First Naval District, Boston, Mass., 1943-1946; Work responsi­bilities, co-workers, social life; Discharged in 1946; Attended RI. School of Design; Married in 1947; Comments on SPARS, esprit de corps, and patriotism during WWII.

Hayes, Marilyn Morrissey 1920-. Reminiscences of an enlisted Marine (WR) during WWII. Includes youth in Newport, RI.; Employment at John Stevens shop; Reaction to Pearl Harbor Bombing; volunteered at Newport Hospital; Enlisted in Marines inJanuary 1945; Basic Training at Camp Lejeune, N.C.; Fear of drill sergeant; Intimidated by training; Stayed on base; Mess duty; Assigned to Marine Corps School as driver for Director, Quantico, Va.; Social life; Met Captain M. McAfee, Director of the WAVES; aAssigned to MC Headquarters, Washington, D.C.; Discharged in June 1946; Newport during wartime; joining MC (WR) a positive experience; Marriage in 1947; Employed briefly by Ada Bethune.

Oral history of Martha Adams Marshall, served in the Marine Corps (WR) during WWII.

Azarian discusses his youth in Hartford, CT, his being drafted in the Army Air Corps, his training in the B-24 bomber as an armor gummer, gunnery school, missions over Austria and Yugoslavia, the explosion of his plane, his time in prison camp at Barth, Germany and his escape to France at the war's end.

Youth in Amsterdam, N.Y.; Employment at General Electric Corporation;Joined the Navy, September 1942; Boot Camp, U.S. Naval Training Station, Newport, RI.; Radio School, Bedford Springs, Pa.; Radioman, USS Borie; Rescue of German POWs; Encounter with German Subma­ rine; Sinking of USS Borie, 1November 1943; Rescue by USS Gough; Served in USS J. Fred Tal­bot; Radio Technician School, Chicago, IL; Radio Technician School, Corpus Christi, Tex., 1944; Assigned to Trenton, NJ., radar installation, 1945; Discharged, 1945; Graduate, University of Missouri; Boston Fuse Company, St. Louis, Mo. Part of WWII Veterans Project.

Smith, Larry 1892-1987. Reminiscences of her youth and life as a Navy wife, including growing up in Annapolis on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy, social life with midshipmen, marriage, World War I, life in Shanghai and Chefoo, China, and travel to Manila, 1925-1928; Assignment to the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I., and comments on the Naval War College in the 1930s; Impressions of Ad­mirals W. T. Sampson, W. Rodgers,]. P. Pringle, T. Hart, R. A. Spruance, E. G. Kalbfus and CAPT R. C. Smith; Assignment to Hawaii; Retirement in Newport, R.I., 1940. Part of History of the Navy in Narragansett Bay Project.

Ravin, Mary Anna Silverman, 1924. Typescript of interview with WWII WAVE, includes youth in Providence, R.I.; Graduation from University of Rhode Island, 1944; Enlisted in WAVES in 1944; Training and indoctrination at USNTS (WR) , Bronx, N.Y.;Assigned to Medical Corps as a pharmacist' smate, St. Albans Naval Hospital; Radio Chicago Radar School Infirmary; Bethesda Naval Hospital; Great Lakes Naval Hospital; Death of FDR and reaction to; Social life in the Navy; Tufts Medical School; Internship; Marriage and medical practice on Cape Cod; Membership in Ocean State WAVES.

Gray discusses her service in the WAVES as a yeoman from 1943 to 1946, including boot camp at US Naval Training School (WR) and yeoman school at Oklahoma State University as well as her assignment at the Norfolk Naval Air Station during the war. She was head of demobilization office at Bainbridge, Maryland, by the end of the war. Joining the WAVES was the most important thing she did in her life.

Gray was born in Scituate, RI in 1923. She graduated from Coventry High School in 1941 and worked as an office clerk before joining the WAVES. She graduated from RI College and taught English in RI public schools before retiring and running a girls camp in Maine. Part of the WAVES in WWII Oral History Project.