Spends Week Here
A visitor here this past week has been Genevieve Lucile Miller, seaman 1/c United States navy.
Seaman Miller was one of the first Council Bluffs women to enlist in the WAVES and after taking her "boot" training at Hunter's college in the Bronx, N.Y., she was graduated from the aircraft instrument school in Chicago on Jan 10.
Seaman Miller will conclude her stay here with her mother, Mrs. Jennie Miller, when she leaves Monday evening for the naval air base at Norfolk, Va.
Source: Council Bluffs Nonpareil, January 16, 1944 (photo included)
Iowa WAVES
Throughout the continental United States some 1,600 girls are helping with the war by serving their country as WAVES. The tasks at which the Iowans are working are typical of the varied and interesting jobs the WAVES are doing to replace men for the fighting front. The national recruiting quota is 1,200 a week and by the end of 1944 the navy hopes to have 94,000 WAVES.
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Genevieve Miller, Seaman second class, Council Bluffs, is learning to repair, overhaul and calibrate aircraft instruments, as she is doing here, at a naval training school in Chicago.
Source: The Des Moines Register, February 20, 1944 (photo included)
