Feb 29, 2024
For women to replace men wherever they were needed in vital wartime communications work, the American Women’s Voluntary Services opened a Radio Laboratory for training. The students were taught all phases of radio construction and repair and turned out radio engineering aides, repairwomen, and technicians. In the photo above, members of a class in theory listen to explanation by Frances Peabody Mayer, director of the course, February 29, 1944.
Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP