Miss Josephine Adams has the honor of being the first Corning or Adams county woman to enlist in the Women's Army. Miss Adams has been accepted into the "WAVES" the women's auxiliary organization of the navy. She left Corning, Tuesday, for Des Moines to join a group of women who will be sent to Stillwater, Oklahoma, for training.
Source: Adams County Free Press, October 8, 1942
GET NAVY APPLAUSE
Shown with Josephine Adams (right), yeoman, first class, of Corning, Ia., at the naval air station, Glenview, Ill., are Hazel Dorsey (left) of Catonsville, Md., and Mary Anne Neff, of Birmingham, Ohio, both yeoman, second class. They will be honored with nine other WAVES Sunday, the second anniversary of the WAVES, by staff officers and enlisted men at the station as recognition of being among the first woman assigned to the station, serving with it up to the present time.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, July 26, 1944 (photo included)
Josephine Adams, yeoman, first class, formerly of 818 Seventh st., walks aboard a transport at a west coast port bound for Hawaii. Yeoman Adams was with one of the first group of WAVES to go overseas, assigned to Pearl Harbor.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, January 17, 1945 (photo included)
IOWA WAVE ON HAWAIIAN BEACH
Something new has been added to the sands of Hawaiian beaches with the arrival of the Navy's WAVES. When the girls, recently arrived for duty in the Pacific base, have liberty, the beaches take on this appearance. At right, is Josephine Adams, yeoman, first class, of Corning, Ia.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, February 6, 1945 (photo included)
