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Title
[Myrtle
Otto
Hanke
with her
family
,
circa
1945]
Date
1945
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Myrtle
Otto
Hanke
(on
left)
poses
with her
mother
and
sister
,
circa
1945
. She
wears
her
WAVES
gray
and
white
seersucker
dress
with
seersucker
garrison
cap
.
Veteran's name
Hanke, Myrtle Otto
Veteran's biography
Myrtle
Otto
Hanke
(1922-2014)
of
Brookline
,
Massachusetts
,
served
at the
Naval
Communications
Annex
in
Washington
,
D.C.
, in the
U.S>
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
from
October
1942
to
1947
.
Myrtle
Otto
Hanke
was
born
in
Newton
,
Massachusetts
, on
7
May
1922
. She
grew
up
in
Brookline
,
Massachusetts
, and
graduated
from
Brookline
High
School
in
1939
.
Hanke
returned
to
school
for a
postgraduate
course
and then
worked
for the
National
Fire
Protection
Association
.
Hanke
joined
the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
in
October
1942
. In
December
she
went
to
basic
training
at
Iowa
State
Teachers’
College
in
Cedar
Falls
, and then in
February
1943
she
went
to a
month
of
cryptographic
training
in
Washington
,
D.C
.
Hanke
then
worked
at the
Naval
Communications
Annex
in
D.C
. for the
remainder
of the
war
,
transferring
to a
larger
crypotographic
unit
after
six
months
in
Washington
. She
left
the
WAVES
as a
chief
petty
officer
in
1947
.
After
the
war
,
Hanke
moved
to
Chicago
,
Illinois
, and
attended
Columbia
College
,
where
she
met
her
husband
. She had
children
and
worked
for a
number
of
companies
,
including
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology
,
IBM
, and
Honeywell
. Her
husband
was in the
navy
during
World
War
II
and the
Korean
War
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
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
WV0147 Myrtle Otto Hanke Papers
Rights statement
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. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
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the
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holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
Wv0147.6.001
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
900811584
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