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CALLING ALL WAVES WHO WENT THRU BOOT AT
HUNTER!! |
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Fran Harriman is compiling a list of all the WAVES who went thru boot camp at Hunter College during WWII. National Archives is unable to locate the roster from Cedar Falls that had the first enlistees in December 1942. This is to augment the list of women who entered the Navy from 1948 – 1955, already completed. By compiling this list, Fran hopes to be able to give those WAVES interested in finding old friends, the necessary information that allows them to find |
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and National Conference that Fran has attended, and are available for anyone to look at, either in the Hospitality Room or the meeting room. It was in Las Vegas twice, San Luis Obispo, Portland, Hawaii, and Cleveland. Anyone attending those meetings would have had access. One year, May 1949 thru May 1950, is missing from the Korea-era database, because National Archives was unable to locate those rosters. Fran must depend on information from WAVES who |
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them, i.e., service number (for use thru the VA), home town/state of enlistment (to possibly locate family members still in the area), boot camp place/dates, company/platoon/section to identify who was in what, and duty station(s) for anyone who would like to plan a reunion, or identify someone whose full name they’ve forgotten. There are 17,000 WAVES listed in the Korea-era database, and she currently has about 8 thousand of 88,000 WWII WAVES, limited to Feb thru May 1943 at this time. WIMSA and the Bainbridge Association have been given a copy of the Korea-era rosters, and WIMSA will get a copy of WWII when complete. Fran estimates about 3 years work at a personal cost of about $550 for the microfilm reels, plus paper and printing supplies and binding, including photocopying of Quarterly rosters for people not yet entered in the database (at the moment, late ‘43, ‘44 and ‘45). Each Quarterly roster contains 60+ pages at $0.15 a page, and requires a 40 mile round trip to use the machine that makes the copies. She spends an average of 5 hours a day entering data, often having to use a magnifying glass to decipher the poorer reels. With the number of WAVES in WAVES National, it would make the WWII database more informative to those who are interested. Boot camp is only 1 – 2 months in a naval career. Fran priced out printing just one copy of the Korea-era listing with 350+ pages, two sides, plus binding supplies. One volume would cost about $43.00 to purchase, not including shipping, making her “profit” about $5 for her years of work. The WWII database will be about 4 times that size. Due to the fact that Hunter was all WAVES, the Hunter database will be faster, since she no longer has to “pick out” the women’s names from men’s names in a roster of 15,000 per month. Because of that, she is sure that she has missed many Marions, Shirleys, etc. that were women. WAVES are not identified by the “W” in monthly rosters, and often not listed in the Quarterly, which does use the “W”. The Korea-era database has been taken, along with company pictures sent to her by Korea-era WAVES, to every Regional |
were there, during those months, to complete the Korea-era.
Fran cannot provide for individual searches at this time. She has
written a small booklet that explains various methods in locating old
friends. The methods she describes anyone can do, providing they have
access to a computer, a library or a mailbox. These methods are
successful in a majority of cases. Fran will provide printouts of a base/boot company to anyone who requests them, and also look up individual’s information, which is limited at present to 1943 in WWII. She does not have the reels for ‘44 and ‘45 yet. Korea-era is still on her computer, and those are available also. Fran asks that you send a self-addressed stamped envelope, and a note with the time/place/name needed. What you then do with that information is up to you. She will include a sheet of how to use various methods of finding someone. The data has the following fields: |
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