Naval War College (U.S.)

Council, Dorothy, CAPT, USN, 1912-1998. Reminiscences of career as an officer in the WAVES in WWII and in the regular Navy, 1942- 1972. Includes early years in Northampton, Mass.; Education at Smith College, class of 1933; Ca­reer in merchandising at Macy's and Franklin Simon; Enlisted in the WAVES in 1942; Indoctrina­tion at Mt. Holyoke College; Assigned as Personnel Officer, Communications Division, 1942- 1945, Washington, D.C.; Discrimination vs. Women; Administration and Personnel Officer, Com­munication Division, Hawaii, 1945-1946; Administration and Personnel Officer, Communica­tion Division, San Francisco, Calif., 1946-1950; Women Officer Detail, BuPers, Washington, D.C., 1950-1953; Promotion exams; Administration and Personnel Officer, Central Torpedo Office, Newport, RI., 1953-1957; Fond of Newport; BuPers liaison in congress, 1957-1960; Administra­tion and personnel officer, EUCOM, Paris, 1960-1962; Living in Paris, CO, Recruit training Women, 1962-1964; Bainbridge, Md.; Assistant Administration Officer, NWC; Promotion to Cap­tain; OSD, Military Personnel Branch, 1968-1972; Retirement in Newport and travel experiences.

Midgeley, Dorothy R., 1924-. Reminiscences of a WWII WAVE who served as a Welfare and Recreation Specialist at Charleston, S.C., Naval Base. Includes youth in Wells, N.Y.; Hostess at USO, Schenectady, N.Y.; Reaction to Pearl Harbor bombing; Enlisted in WAVES in 1944; Training and indoctrination and Specialist School (WR) Bronx, N.Y.; Daily routine; Classes; Marching; Food; Duties at Noisette Creek Barracks, Charleston, S.C.; Social life; Ship parties; Trips to Miami and Havana; Dis­ charged in 1946;Joined Reserve Unit, Albany, N.Y., 1948-1949; Marriage; WAVE Conventions and Ocean State WAVES.

Henderson, Douglas B., RADM, USCG, 1910-. B.S., USCG Academy, 1936; Chelan; Cayuga; Tahoe; Assistant to the first CG District Engi­ neer, Boston, 1939-1940; Master's Degree in Naval Construction and Engineering, MIT, Cam­ bridge, Mass., 1943; Hull Inspector/Officer in Charge, Technical Division, Office of the Navy Supervisor of Shipbuilding, San Pedro, Calif., 1943-1946; Hull Superintendent/Docking Offi­ cer, Curtis Bay, Md., 1946-1948; Engineer Officer, Chautauqua, 1948-1949; XO, Kukui, 1949- 1950; CO, Klamath, 1950-1951;Secretary, Ship's Structure Committee, and Staff, Office of Engi­ neering, CGHQ, Washington, D.C., 1951-1955; Officer in Charge, Power Laboratory, CG Acad­ emy, and Deputy Head, Applied Science and Engineering Department, USCG Academy, 1955- 1959; CO, Ingham, 1959-1961; Chief of Engineering, Fourteenth District, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1961; Chief of Engineering, Fifth District, Portsmouth, Va., 1964; Deputy Chief, Office of Engi­ neering, CGHQ, 1964; Comptroller, CGHQ, 1966-1968; Chief, Office Engineering, 1968.

Casmdy, Duane H., GEN, USAF, 1933-. Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command published by USTRANSCOM Office of History, Scott AFB, Illinois. The main focus of the history is the establishment and developmentof the nation's newest United Military Command.

Doolittle discusses the reaction of Yale students to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, joining the US Army after graduation from Yale in 1942, Field Artillery unit, training to fly Piper Cubs, assigned to Pacific Theater with 43rd Division, first art New Zealand, then New Guinea and the Philippines, flying missions to locate Japanese troops, adjusting fire for the USS Pennsylvania, conditions in the Philippines, barracks, food, friendship with a Filipino family, practicing for the invasion of Japan, demilitarizing Yokosuka, and returning home.

Potter, E. Jane, LCDR, USN, 1913-1999. Reminiscence of a WWII WAVE whojoined the regular Navy and served for twenty-one years. Includes her youth in Beaver, Pa.; Graduation from Geneva College; Worked in Personnel De­ partment, Jones and Laughlin Steel Co., 1934-1943; Joined the USN for patriotic reasons; Trained at USNMS (WR), Smith College; As.signed as Head, Navy Relief, Newport, R.I.; Assigned to BuPers, Plans and Policy Department, ca. 1946;Assigned to London in Intel Department;Joint Staff, Germany; CNO's Office; First woman to attend NWC, 1958-1959; Staff, NWC, 1959-1960; Amphibious Force assignment, Little Creek, Va., 1960--1963; Retired in 1963; Retirement and work in Washington, D.C; Retired in Newport, R.I.; Positive comments on naval career.

Oral history of Edith F. Full

Smith, Edith, 1924. Reminiscences of a WWII WAVE who served as a Yeoman at Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI., 1944-1945; Includes her growing up years in Woonsocket, RI.; High School graduation, 1941; Employment at Slatersville Finishing Co. in Payroll Department; Reaction to Pearl Harbor bombing; Enlisted in WAVES in 1944; Training and indoctrination at USNTS (WR) Hunter Col­ lege, Bronx, N .Y.; Member of singing platoon that appeared on Perry Como Show; Yeoman train­ing at Oklahoma A&M, Stillwater, Okla.; Assignment in Personnel Department at NAVTORSTA, Newport, R.I.; Recreation; Maniage, June 1945; V:J Day celebrations in Newport; Discharged, No­vember 1945; Impact of WAVES service on her life; Postwar employment; Ocean State WAVES Membership.

Schultz, Edna Hill, 1922-2006. Youth inSouth Portland, Maine; Worked in shipyard;joined U.S. Marine Corps (WR), 1944; Basic training at Camp Lejeune, N.C.; Daily routine and classes; Clerk in the Schools Command, Camp Lejeune; Promoted to Corporal; Visit of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; V:J Day celebra­ tion; Discharged in May 1946; Significance of Marine Corps service; Member, Women Marines Association.

Hayes discusses his youth in St. Louis, MO, his US Naval Academy education, assignment to USS Maryland at Pearl Harbor, HI, attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, flight training, assignment to Attu, Alaska where he was involved in bombing the Northern Kurile Islands and then Okinawa, courtship of his wife, helicopter training at Patuxet River, MD, Military Assistance, Jakarta, Indonesia, Korean War, Naval War College student and staff, NROTC at Holy Cross College, Retirement career and travel.

Hayes was born in St. Louis in St. Louis, MI in 1918. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1940 and served in the Navy for thirty years, retiring in 1970. Part of the WWII Navy Veterans Oral History Project.