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HawkeyeTen t1_iu5dmi8 wrote

What was your mother's job (or was it classified)? I know some of those ladies did some pretty wild stuff during the war (one team of WAVES was actually tracking down Nazi U-Boats in the Atlantic and passing the intel on to the combat boys, their methods were so secretive IIRC that they couldn't talk about their work for decades). Regardless, a very courageous and seemingly very kind lady.

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creepy_old_white_guy OP t1_iu5zh0u wrote

Thank you for thinking of her.

She was a clerk/typist at the Inyokern Naval Ordnance Test Station, which is now known as China Lake. 

I don't know about anything top secret, but considering naval rocketry was/is the purpose, I would imagine security as being paramount. She never really spoke of it.

Sorry for the deletions. I tried adding a link to an image of the unit patch, but the bots are having an issue with it.

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