After a lot of fight to establish a women's regiment in the United States Navy, President Roosevelt signed the group into law on July 30, 1942. After its' establishment, there was a vast amount of women that were interested in enlisting so organization and management of WAVES was critical. After a year, there were about 27,000 women who were actively serving and wearing the uniform. Being apart of the WAVES regiment included many duties from secretarial work to different types of aviation work on base. Some women were found working on new innovations and technologies that were atypical duties in the branch while others helped with communications during the intense fight to bring down men like Mussolini and Hitler. The picture above shows Members of the first class of WAVES to graduate from the Aviation Metalsmith School, at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 30 July 1943. These women would go on to be the first to start working on Naval bases in order to help the war effort.
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