Keywords: SPAR Aileen Anita Cooke, a prentice seamen, is receiving her "boot" course at a United States Training Station... - NARA - 535868.tif Scope and content SPAR Aileen Anita Cooke a prentice seamen is receiving her boot course at a United States Training Station Manhattan Beachm Brooklyn New York She is shown seated on a winch on the deck of the dry-land training ship USS Neversail Seaman Cooke enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve in February The daughter or Mr and Mrs Allan A Vooke of 1141 East 58th Street Los Angeles California she was valedictorian of her class at the marshall Junior High School and was a student of the University of Southern California for three years Prior to her enlistment she was employed in the Los Angeles Post Office African-American woman General notes 535868 Local identifier 208-NP-10J 1 Office for Emergency Management Office of War Information Domestic Operations Branch News Bureau 06/13/1942 - 09/15/1945 NARA-Author Department of the Treasury U S Coast Guard 1915 - 04/01/1967 Photographer 1130808 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1942-1945 Record group Record Group 208 Records of the Office of War Information 1926 - 1951 Record group ARC 535 Negro Activities in Industry Government and the Armed Forces compiled 1941 - 1945 Series ARC 535799 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-208-NP-10J 1 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Sailor suits NARA images of New York 20th-century black and white portrait photographs of sitting women at full length Black and white portrait photographs of women of the United States Black and white portrait photographs of military people in uniform Manhattan Beach Brooklyn History of Brooklyn Military in Brooklyn New York City People in Brooklyn SPARS African American sailors Female sailors Women in the United States Coast Guard |