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Title
[Ruth
Kent
Petker
holding
hands
with
serviceman
,
1943
]
Date
1943
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Ruth
Kent
Petker
, in the
WAVES
service
dress
blue
uniform
and
service
hat
,
holds
hands
with an
unidentified
soldier
in
downtown
Norman
,
Oklahoma
,
where
she
attended
mechanics
training
in
1943
.
Veteran's name
Petker, Ruth Kent
Veteran's biography
Ruth
K
.
Petker
(1923-2005)
of
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
,
served
as an
aviation
and
machinist
mate
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Services)
from
February
1943
to
November
1945
.
Ruth
Kent
Petker
grew
up
in
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
, and
graduated
from
Greensboro
Senior
High
School
in
1941
. She
worked
for a
year
or
two
at
F.W
.
Woolworth’s
and then at a
Burlington
Industries
hosiery
plant.
" In
February
1943
,
Petker
joined
the
WAVES
, and in
March
she was
sent
to
basic
training
at
Hunter
College
in the
Bronx
,
New
York
. She also
completed
six
months
of
airplane
mechanics
training
in
Norman
,
Oklahoma
.
Petker’s
first
duty
station
was
Opa-locka
Air
Base
in
Miami
,
Florida
, but she was not
needed
there,
so
she
went
to
Jacksonville
[Florida]
Naval
Air
Station
instead
, in
November
1943
. There she
worked
in the
assembly
and
repair
shop
,
taking
engines
apart
,
before
her
transfer
to a
fighter
squadron
,
where
she
taught
instrument
training
. She
left
the
WAVES
in
November
1945
as an
aviation
and
machinist
mate
,
third
class
.
Petker
attended
the
Woman’s
College
of the
University
of
North
Carolina
(now
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro)
and the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Chapel
Hill
on the
GI
Bill
and
studied
art
. She
worked
at a
department
store
,
Morris
and
Neese
, in the
drapery
department
, and
later
went
to
New
York
City
to
work
as a
technical
illustrator
for an
engineering
company
. She
met
her
husband
, also a
navy
veteran
, in
New
York
.
Ruth
Petker
died
in
March
2005
.
Place
Norman
(Okla.)
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
WV0125 Ruth Kent Petker Papers
Rights statement
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Additional rights information
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0125.6.001
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
900811109
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