Original U.S. Navy WWII WAVES Named Officer Service Cap with Photograph British Militaria being assigned to VIII Bomber

being assigned to VIII Bomber Command in England in December 1943

along with an embroidered cockade with red felt center

The matching brown twill wool pants are also present

It was worn throughout the empire

” Michaelis also thought the socks on the corpse were from the same set of three pairs Lord had earlier purchased from a trader at Powder River

Original U.S. Navy WWII WAVES Named Officer Service Cap with Photograph British Militaria being assigned to VIII BomberOriginal Item: One of a kind. The United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known as the WAVES (for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), was the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve during World War II. It was established on July 21, 1942 by the U. S. Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 30. This authorized the U. S. Navy to accept women into the Naval Reserve as commissioned