Dorothy Weaver and Gerry Doyle, Waves, stationed at Teachers college, Cedar Falls, were detasseling corn from the detasseling corm machine as this picture was snapped. They were two of the 150 Waves who spent their weekend working in the cornfields near Reinbeck. Sunday is the second anniversary of the formation of the women's auxiliary to the navy, and this is how they chose to celebrate it.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - July 30, 1944 (photo included)
WAVES DETASSEL CORN -- Navy WAVES from the training school at Cedar Falls observed the second anniversary of the Waves Saturday and Sunday by helping detassel hybrid corn. Among those spending their liberty hours in a field near Reinbeck were four Iowans, (left to right) -- Helen Nerad of Iowa City, Dorothy Weaver of Belle Plaine, Clara Lou Morris of Gravity and Virginia Lampe of Iowa City.
Source: The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) July 31, 1944 (photo included)
