Title: Ellen Zukunft McGrew

Identifier: 0723-b1-fe-i87   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/997)

Description: Portrait of Ellen Zukunft McGrew as a United States Naval Reserve (USNR) Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) officer. McGrew joined WAVES in 1942; trained in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and at the Bethesda, Md., Naval Hospital from 1942 to 1943; was commissioned as an ensign in 1943; served at the 6th USNR District Headquarters in Charleston, S.C., and the Naval Training Center in Sampson, N.Y.; resigned her commission in 1946; and remained in the Naval Reserves until 1957. Date approximated.