She's WAVE
Miss Lula E. Heldt, 20, Chicago, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Brooks, 510 Fowler street, is awaiting call to active duty in the Waves, in which she became a member last month. She is now employed at a war plant in Chicago. Miss Heldt is a 1941 graduate of East High school and has two brothers in the navy -- Lee, torpedoman first class at Oakland, Cal., and Arlo, 23 a coxswain, on duty somewhere in the Pacific.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - February 21, 1943 (photo included)
Three Waterloo Girls Graduated at Waves Center
Three Waterloo girls had been graduated Saturday from the Waves indoctrination course at the Waves center, Cedar Falls.
Lula Heldt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Brooks, 510 Fowler street, became a yeoman third class, altho she was unable to attend the graduation exercises Friday because of a broken ankle.
She is in sick bay at the navy sick bay, but will leave for active duty upon recovery, Yeoman Heldt has two brothers already serving in the US Navy. They are Lee and Arlo Heldt.
Also graduating were Josephine Pedersen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pedersen, 219 Virden street, who received her yeoman third class rating and Lois Ruth Culbertson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Vern Culbertson, 422 Baltimore, who did not receive a yeoman's rating but will leave within a few days for active duty.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - June 27, 1943
Lula Heldt, yeoman third class in the Waves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs H.B. Brooks, 510 Fowler street, has reported to the naval air station at Glenview, Ill. She enlisted at Des Moines on Jan. 27, and received her basic training at Cedar Falls.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - July 11, 1943
With the departure Tuesday of Miss Nola J. Heldt, 22, for active duty with the Waves at Hunter college in New York, four members of the Heldt family will have donned the navy blues of service with the United States navy, both here and overseas.
Miss Heldt, the daughter of Mrs. H.B. Brooks, 510 Fowler street, was a 1940 graduate of East high school and has since been employed at the Rath Packing company. She has a sister and two brothers already in the service. Lula Heldt, yeoman third class, returned Thursday to the naval air station at Bunker Hill, Ind., after spending a seven day leave here. Lee Heldt, torpedo man first class, is now home on a 30 day leave, and Arlo Heldt, boatswain's mate first class, is stationed somewhere in the southwest Pacific.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - October 31, 1943
Nola Heldt, specialist Q second class in the Waves, is attached to a communications center. in the Hawaiian islands and has a total of 24 points toward a discharge, according to word received by her mother, Mrs. Jennie Heldt and sister, Hazel, all of 221 Fremont street. Her sister, Lula, received a medical discharge from the Waves two months ago and is now living at Pomona, Cal. Two sons of Mrs. Heldt are also in the navy. They are Chief Torpedoman Lee, assigned to a ship now being built in Washington, and Arlo, boatswain's mate first class, Guam.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - September 3, 1945
