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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Profiles HFDFW Spring-Summer 2014


Martha was 23 years old when she enlisted into the U.S. Navy (WAVES.) She said that she was in an audience in Phoenix Arizona when a group of “attractive” WAVES gave a recruitment speech. She says that she wanted to do more for the war effort than sit behind a typewriter. She joined up soon after.

Martha was assigned as a communications and ships service officer at the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma.

Her most memorable experience was being in New York City on V-E Day. She had traveled to the city to pick up engagement rings for the ships service inventory! Also, Oklahoma was a “dry” state at the time, so she used that opportunity to bring back a bottle in a brown paper bag!

Martha was discharged from the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant J.G.

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