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Ruth K. Petker (1923-2005) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served as an aviation and machinist mate in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services) from February 1943 to November 1945. Ruth Kent Petker grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, and graduated from Greensboro Senior High School in 1941. She worked for a year or two at F.W. Woolworth's and then at a Burlington Industries hosiery plant. In February 1943, Petker joined the WAVES, and in March she was sent to basic training at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York. She also completed six months of airplane mechanics training in Norman, Oklahoma. Petker's first duty station was Opa-locka Air Base in Miami, Florida, but she was not needed there, so she went to Jacksonville [Florida] Naval [...] Read more
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