Oral history interview with Ruth Potier [sound recording], 2007.

United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve

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The United States entered WWII in 1941 and soon faced a serious shortage of manpower in the military. Congress, along with public interest and advocacy from various national organizations, forced the Department of the Navy (over considerable internal resistance) to start accepting women into their service to augment the many thousands of men already active in the war effort. On June 24, 1942, Congress passed an act to create a women's reserve as a branch of the Naval reserve; to be governed by ...

Wisconsin Veterans Museum

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Macdonald, Terry

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Potier, Ruth,

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Ruth Potier, (1922- ) a Sturgeon Bay, Wis. native, discusses her service as a Storekeeper Second Class with the United States Navy Waves during World War II. After her discharge, she returned to Sturgeon Bay where she and her husband raised six children. From the description of Oral history interview with Ruth Potier [sound recording], 2007. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 190942009 ...

Potier, Ruth, 1922-

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Naval Air Technical Training Center (Naval Air Station Minnington, Tenn.)

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