Dorothy Whiteford primarily documents her time in the WAVES during World War II. She goes into detail about her job working at a defense plant and then her time in the Na[...]

Group of Navy WAVES enlistees and officers at boot camp. Hunter College, New York. Dorothy Anderson Whiteford is in the fifth row, first from left. May 1944.

Dorothy Anderson Whiteford. A WAVES barracks is in the background. Probably Naval Air Station Ottumwa, Iowa, 1944.

Group of Navy WAVES in the "logging department" at US Naval Air Base Ottumwa, Iowa. Dorothy Anderson Whiteford is 3rd from right in the back row. May 1945.

Flight Instructors and other personnel of the US Naval Air Base Ottumwa, Iowa. Dorothy Anderson Whiteford is squatting in the front row, seventh from the right, flanked b[...]

Dorothy Anderson Whiteford (second from left), meeting with high school friends who were also in the service, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Caption: "A meeting with the girl[...]

Dorothy Anderson Whiteford wears a trenchcoat and pants. A WAVES barracks is in the background. Probably Naval Air Station Ottumwa, Iowa, 1944.

Caption reads "Off Base didn't need ties"

Entrance of the US Naval Air Base Ottumwa, Iowa, 27 June, 1944

Portrait of Dorothy Anderson Whiteford's best friend Ruthie wearing her flight line gear at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Ottumwa, Iowa, circa 1945.