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Women in the U.S. Navy

Women in the U.S. Navy; Bibliography and Selected Documents

Oral Histories:

• LT Ruth Erickson, NC, USN relates experiences during Pearl Harbor Attack
• CAPT Ann Bernatitus, NC, USN, (Ret.), recounting her service in the Philippines including Bataan, evacuation from Corregidor on USS Spearfish (SS-190); and service on USS Relief (AH-1) during the Okinawa campaign and the return of American prisoners of war from Japanese-occupied China.
• LT Dorothy Still Danner, NC, USN relates her experiences as a prisoner of war at Santo Thomas and Los Banos camps in the Philippines.
• LT Helen Pavlovsky, USNR and LT Sara Marcum, USNR relate their experiences at Navy Base Hospital No. 12 after the Normandy Invastion
• LCDR Bobbi Hovis, NC, USN relates her experiences during the coup d'etat on 1 November 1963 that overthrew President Ngo Ninh Diem of the Republic of [South] Vietnam.

Women in the U.S. Navy; Historic Documents relating to

• 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
• 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
• Uniform Regulations, Women:
  • Navy Nurse Corps, 1917
  • Women Reservist, Yeoman (F), 1918
  • Women Reservist, Yeoman (F), 1919
  • Women's Reserve [WAVES], 1943
• Admiral Zumwalt's Z-gram #116 (Equal Rights and opportunities for women), 7 August 1972

Photographs and Artwork

• Recruiting Posters for Women from World War II
• WAVES Photographs from World War II Era
• Yeoman (F) Photographs from World War I Era