All thanks to the efforts of a private donor, three lounges were built explicitly for the women volunteers of the WACs and WAVES (and probably WMs, as well). Furnished with vanities, hair dryers, magazines and ping-pong tables; they must have been a big hit – they look very much like the sets of a Fred Astaire movie.

An article about WAVES can be read here…

Click here to read about the need for Army women during the Korean War.

Click here to read about the U.S.O. entertainers…

Read Lounges for WAACs and WAVES<br>(Pic Magazine, 1943) for Free

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