Women in the U.S. Navy
Related Resources
Oral Histories
- LT Ruth Erickson, NC, USN experiences during Pearl Harbor Attack
- CAPT Ann Bernatitus, NC, USN, (Ret.) Philippine service i including Bataan,
evacuation from Corregidor on USS Spearfish (SS-190); on USS Relief (AH-1) during the Okinawa campaign and return of American POWs from Japanese-occupied China
- LT Dorothy Still Danner, NC, USN experiences as POW at Santo Thomas and Los Banos camps in Philippines.
- LT Helen Pavlovsky, USNR and LT Sara Marcum, USNR Navy Base Hospital No. 12 after Normandy Invastion
- LCDR Bobbi Hovis, NC, USN on the coup d'etat on 1 November 1963 overthrowing President Ngo Ninh Diem of the Republic of [South] Vietnam.
Historic Documents
- History of Women on Navy Ships in the Nineteenth Century; Operational Archives Branch Memorandum, 1951
- History of Women in the Navy; Navy Department Press Release, 30 July 1942
- Congratulatory Letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt on one year anniversary of WAVES, 30 July 1943
- Establishment of Navy Nurse Corps, Public Law No. 115, 13 May 1908
- Establishment of Women's Reserve, Public Law 689, 30 July 1942
- Navy To Begin Assigning Women to Ships, 24 October 1978
- The Role of Women in Theater during Desert Shield/Desert Storm
- Admiral Zumwalt's Z-gram #116 (Equal Rights and opportunities for women), 7 August 1972
Uniform Regulations, Women
- Navy Nurse Corps, 1917
- Women Reservist, Yeoman (F), 1918
- Women Reservist, Yeoman (F), 1919
- Women's Reserve [WAVES], 1943
Photographs and Artwork
- Women in Uniform, Online Art Exhibit
- Women Yeoman Photographs from World War I
- Recruiting Posters for Women from World War II
- WAVES Photographs from World War II