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Dorothy Anderson Whiteford (b. 1921), of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served in the United States Navy WAVES from 1944-1946. Her assignment was to monitor the flight line at the Ottumwa Naval Air Station in Iowa. Dorothy Whiteford was born 18 January 1921 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from Roosevelt High in 1940 and worked at Pick and Pack, a high-end clothing store in Minneapolis. After working there for a year and a half, Whiteford started to work at a defense plant making casings for the war. While she was doing this she also volunteered for the American Red Cross and was a Candy Striper at the University of Minnesota hospital. Whiteford joined the U.S. Navy WAVES in 1944. Whiteford attended boot camp at Hunter College in New York and then was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Ottumwa, Iowa. Whiteford worked on the flight line, where she scheduled flight training. She was there for two years before being transferred to the Minneapolis Saint Paul Joint Air Reserves Station in February 1946 to help take care of her sick mother. Whiteford was then put in the reserves before she was discharged in May 1946. In 1947, Whiteford went to the Chicago Art Institute to study fashion design. She studied for year before getting married and settling down as a housewife in Minneapolis.