Ella Shake pined for her sailor husband. He had married her in 1942 in Honolulu. Then he had been sent across the Pacific and she, like other Navy wives, had been shipped back to the States.
For a while she taught ballet, but she missed her husband more & more. The WAC and the Red Cross refused to let her volunteer for service in the Pacific because she had been born in Germany, had not become naturalized until after war broke out. But, knowing that her husband was somewhere in the Southwest Pacific, determined Mrs. Shake finally persuaded the captain of...
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