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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Pearl S. Reinertson, pharmacist's mate third class, Story City, gives a heat treatment to Irving Tobin at the air station in Alameda, Cal She formerly tight school in Boone, but always wanted to be a nurse.
Source: The Des Moines Register, February 20, 1944 (photo included)
Pearl Sophie Reinertson Evans was born Sept. 30, 1911 to Thomas and Amelia Holland Reinertson. She died Jan. 8, 2004 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton, OH.
Petty Officer Reinertson served in World War II with the U.S. Navy. She was married to Robert Lee Evans. Robert also served in World War II with the U.S. Navy.
Source: ancestry.com
