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WAVES, acronym of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, military unit, established on July 30, 1942, as the U.S. Navy’s corps of female members. During World War II some 100,000 WAVES served in a wide variety of capacities, ranging from performing essential clerical duties to serving as instructors for male pilots-in-training. Initially, they did not serve overseas. Several thousand WAVES also participated in the Korean War. The corps continued its separate existence until 1978. The navy’s policies toward women were in some ways quite progressive. Unlike the army’s female branch, the Women’s Auxiliary Corps (WAC), the WAVES were not an
Kate Orchard, who lives in Camborne, Cornwall, took off from RNAS Culdrose, near Helston, on bank holiday Monday, with Seahawk Gliding Club, and, under