Des Moines in the Service
June Beverly Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Brown, 654 Thirty-seventh st., left Tuesday for Hunter college, New York City, to begin her boot training in the WAVES.
Source: Des Moines Register, April 19, 1944
Smooth Sailors
Iowa WAVES Learn the Ropes At Cedar Falls
More than 9000 members of the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Navy have finished their work at the naval training school on the Iowa State teachers college campus in Cedar Falls since the WAVES training school was established there in December, 1942. Among them have been many Iowans, as well as young women from all other states, from Alaska, the Virgin Islands, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico and Canada. The Iowans pictured are in the class now completing its training.
June Beverly Brown of Des Moines, admires the hibiscus during a visit to the school greenhouse. The white uniform is summer dress for members of the Women's Reserve. Seaman Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Brown is a 1939 graduate of North High school. She is formerly employed by LOOK magazine.
Source: Des Moines Register, July 30, 1944 (photo included)
Des Moines in the Services
June B. Brown, in the WAVES, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Brown, 654 Thirty-seventh st, promoted to yeoman, third class, at New Orleans, La.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, February 21, 1945
