Title	[Recruit Training, Company 15, 1951]
Date	1951-08-15
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Navy--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Navy
Item description	Group photo of WAVES Company 15, Recruit Training (W) at the US Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois, on August 15, 1951.
Veteran's name	Escher, Jane Heins Kowell
Veteran's biography	Jane Heins Kowell Escher of Sanford, North Carolina, was a cryptographer in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1951 to 1953 . Jane Heins Escher was born in Sanford, North Carolina, and graduated from Sanford High School in 1949. She then worked for a year at a telephone company until she was old enough to join the U.S. Navy . Escher enlisted in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in 1951 and went through four months of basic training in Great Lakes, Illinois. She was then transferred to San Diego, California, for a year and a half of service school training with the security group at the Naval Training Center. In 1953 she reported for cryptographer duties in Washington, D.C. The same year she met her husband, Don Kowell, in her department and they were wed in October. Escher was discharged from the navy due to pregnancy in late 1953 . After discharge, Escher traveled with her husband as he continued his military career. She left his station in Puerto Rico in 1955 and returned to the United States to care for her father. While her husband was in the navy Escher lived in San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; Scotland; and Chesapeake, Virginia. She raised two daughters. Don Kowell retired from the navy in 1969 and passed away in 1980. In 1987 Jane Escher married John Escher, a former Marine.
Place	Great Lakes (Ill.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Posed military unit
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0080 Jane Heins Escher Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0080.6.002
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900811364

[Recruit Training, Company 15, 1951]

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