Naval Security Group WAVES During WWII (Part 1 of 3)

Most of the enlisted WAVES went to Boot Camp at Hunter College, Bronx, New York. A few early enlistees in 1942 went directly to Oklahoma A & M College for Yeoman training or to the University of Wisconsin- Madison, Wisconsin, or to Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Many after Boot Camp were sent to radio schools at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio then to Chatham Massachusetts for duty as German naval intercept operators or to Bainbridge Island, Washington, for additional training in Japanese Kata Kana code with follow on assignment as Japanese naval intercept operators.