Polk County

Helen Gallagher

 

Wave Recruit Sought; Party Visits District

Helen Gallagher, yeoman third class of Des Moines, will accommodate the Wave recruiting party which will visit towns in this district.

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Source: The Waterloo Sunday Courier, May 16, 1943 (photo included)

WAVE ENLISTEES Velma Rose Love, left, 252 Twenty-fourth avenue SW, Doris Fink, 1406 First street NW and Phyllis Green, 203 First avenue SW, admire the new summer dress uniforms of WAVE Yeomans Ethel Vessey, left and Helen Gallagher right. Yeoman Vessey and Gallagher, who are stationed in Des Moines, wore their summer whites for the first time at the mass Wave-Spar enlistment Friday evening in Cedar Rapids.

Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 29, 1943 (photo included)

CUPID AIMS WITH ANCHOR

To insure arrival of valentines to servicemen overseas by Feb. 14, Yeoman Helen Gallagher (left) and Norette Franssens of Minn., Thursday gathered material for making some "Will You Be Mine" greetings for early mailing. Both girls are attached to the office of naval procurement at the old federal building.

Source: DesMoines Tribune, January 6, 1944 (photo included)

What Do You Think?

Question: Do you agree with the statement made by Lieut. Gen. Com. Philip Soloman, navy psychiatrist, assigned to the Marine Corps, that some women join the service because they are bored with their bosses ugly faces?

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Yeoman Third Class Helen Gallagher, 22, WAVE, Hotel Kirkwood: "Oh no, that's a selfish reason. I'd always wanted a chance to join the Navy and had a brother in the same branch of service."

Source: The DesMoines Register, February 25, 1944 (photo included)