Oral history interview with Anita (Temple) Powers [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 ...

Temple, Anita.

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American Legion. Madelyn La Canne Post No. 539 (Green Bay, Wis.)

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Macdonald, Terry

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Powers, Anita,

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Powers, a resident of Green Bay, Wisconsin, served in the WAVES during World War II. After a year of college and a summer session of library science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Powers enlisted in the Navy, where she earned the rank of Storekeeper Third Class. After her discharge, she married an Army veteran and they adopted four children. From the description of Oral history interview with Anita (Temple) Powers [sound recording], 2007. (Wisconsin ...

Wisconsin Veterans Museum

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