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LTJG Elizabeth Lee Mayer Oral History
Publication date: 31 July 2024
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title:
LTJG Elizabeth Lee Mayer Oral History
creator:
Mayer, Elizabeth Lee (Welty) (1920 July 17 - )
subject:
Navy WAVES
description:
This is the original, edited interview audio. Elizabeth L. Mayer (formerly Welty) was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on July 17, 1920. She enlisted in the Navy WAVES from Omaha, Nebraska and went to Smith College in Massachusetts for midshipman training. She was commissioned in October 1943 and went to Harvard Graduate School of Engineering and MIT to study radar and sonar technology and countermeasures for around a year. From there, she was stationed in Anacostia in Washington, DC to work in electronics research. She was discharged in 1945 and worked in the civil service. She and the other 25 women “Radar Girls” she did research with made sure to have reunions in the decades after their service. Mayer had reached the rank of lieutenant junior grade upon her discharge, and for her service she was awarded an American Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Rosenkotter, Judy
date:
2004-05-21
type:
Audio
format:
Cassette
identifier:
615; 2004.615
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
246270
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945)
rights:
Unrestricted