DAILY DRILLING certainly is tough on shoe leather! Seaman Augusta Blume, 861 Nineteenth street SE, is shown in the cobbler's shop of the "USS Hunter" (Hunter college, New York), where she is taking her basic indoctrination course in the Waves.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, February 20, 1944 (photo included)
Men and Women in the Service of Their Country
Augusta K. Blume, seaman (2/c) has completed her course in store-keeping at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and is now stationed at the Quonset Point, R.I., naval air base, after spending several days leave with her mother, Mrs. Leona Blume, 861 Nineteenth street SE.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, March 13, 1944
