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They were the second largest women's service branch. The Coast Guard's SPARs numbered 9,745; the women marines 19,000. There were 82,000 WAVES in uniform. Considering the difference in size between the Army & Navy, women were carrying a proportionately far greater load in the...
BRITISH COLUMBIA Joy Ride Raising the dust in barracks and powder rooms last week was a whispered warning: U.S. Coast Guard SPARS are unsafe on Canadian Navy tugs. Behind the warning was a somewhat Rabelaisian, Sunday-afternoon rowdedow in Vancouver Harbor.
For a week a Coast Guard troupe of 67 enlisted men & women played a four-a-day musical show called Tars and Spars in Vancouver's Beacon Theater. On Sunday the cast, including its bright particular star, Chief Boatswain's Mate Victor Mature,* lunched at the swank Capitano...
The cruise, scheduled to last three hours, was over in 40 minutes. Last week the Americans gasped out the reason, in reports whose most sensational sins were those of omission. Impressed, apparently, by the fact that the SPARS were in show business, the Canadian crew had readied themselves for a...
The only people who did not seem distressed were the SPARS (see cut).