Title	[Myrtle O. Hanke with friend, 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 O. Hanke (top right) and a fellow WAVE pose on a stairway wearing belted raincoats and issue handbags, circa 1945.
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
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Object ID	WV0147.6.005
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	900811726

[Myrtle O. Hanke with friend, circa 1945]

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