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This is a photograph of Alice Sudlow Ash enlisted in the WAVE: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service for the U.S. Navy in 1943 and served until 1945. In an Interview conducted by Suzette McCord-Rogers on Nov 3, 2007, Ash talked about military experiences in the Second World War. She was sent to Bronx, New York, for basic training and then to Oklahoma to attend aviation mechanic school. She served the rest of her enlistment in Jacksonville, Florida, repairing airplane engines. She was born in Holton in 1924 and graduated from Holton High School in 1942. After she married Don Ash, she lived in Circleville, Kansas. A transcript of the interview is available at http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218588.
Creator: Lenak Studios
Date: 1944
Item Number: 310829
Call Number: Digital file, KSHS, 2015-239
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 310829
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1940s - 1944
Military - Equipment - Aircraft
Military - Service - Navy
Military - Wars - World War II
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Holton
Places - Counties - Jackson
Places - Other States - Florida
Places - Other States - New York
Places - Other States - Oklahoma
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Photographs
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