McLemore, Cordelia

Description

The Women Accepted for Volunteer Service (WAVES) was a branch of the US Navy created during World War II. This image is of the first Link Instrument Training Class to be assigned to Naval Air Station Atlanta. It was donated by Cordelia McLemore, a former teacher and guidance counselor of the Fulton County School System. McLemore enlisted in the WAVES when the group first formed. Her military career began in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she graduated from Officer Candidate School. She then served at several posts, working her way up from instructor to administrator of pilot training. After the war, she taught at Milton and North Springs High Schools before becoming guidance counselor at Ridgeview until she retired in 1980. While these women would serve at Naval Air Station Atlanta, that facility was still under construction at the time this photograph was taken. Instead, they were photographed in the Fox Theater's Egyptian Ballroom, where early simulator training took place.

Record Contributed By

Fulton County Schools Archive

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia