Linn County

 
Velma Rose Love

 

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)

Velma Rose Love, aviation machinist's mate (3/c) is spending a three-day leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Love, 252 Twenty-fourth avenue SW. She is stationed at the Corpus Christi, Texas naval air station.

Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, January 8, 1945