Okay, no pics of riveters, but links to photos of WAVES in WW II can be found here. I wonder how many of these women are still living?
My mother wasn’t a WAVE, but she worked for the Navy in Miami in WWII as a bookkeeper.
She had a real good time.
My mom wasnt a riveter, but she did work in the engineering department over at Bell, and worked on the original X-1 project just before she left to go back to school. She went on to get a degree in speach therepy and what now would be considered special education … which came in very handy as I ended up being dyslexic…but since she taught me to read and deal with it before school ever came into the picture very few people [other than the teeming millions :smack: ] know about it.
She turns 82 in less than a month. From mennonite Iowa farm girl, with no running water, electricity and plowhorses to being online and knowing how to make the blinking numbers on a DVD player go away 
Not bad. And people wonder why I say my mother whenever asked who I admire…
My mother (who was not old enough to be a WAVE in WWII, thank you) told me that the WACS and WAVES were generally recruited to serve the enlisted men (ifyouknowwhatImean,andIthinkyoudo). This was after I asked about the line in the Cheap Trick song “Surrender” “… Mommy served with the WACS in the Philippines.” I was quite surprised, I was sure that pre-marital sex was invented by my generation. :smack:
PS - No offense to any whose mothers, aunts, etc. were WACS or WAVES, etc. I was not there, my mother was not there, that’s just what she told me. I’m sure she was talking about all the OTHER WACS and WAVES.