Born: 27 April 1923, United States
Died: 21 May 2013
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Virginia Jenness Millett
The following is republished from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Virginia Jenness Millett Apocada, who served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service during WWII.
Virginia Jenness Millett Apocada was attending business college when she learned from a friend about being in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). She entered the Navy in December 1943. After completing basic training at Hunter College in New York, she attended storeman school in Milledgeville, Georgia, due to her skill in accounting.
The Navy initially stationed her at a naval base in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. She later went to the Navy Aviation Supply Depot in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The depot stored and supplied the bases, Army Air Corps, and naval ships with ammunition and supplies.
After her honorable discharge in February 1946, Apocada attended East Los Angeles Junior College, studying accounting on the GI Bill. She also actively served in the American Legion, WAVES National (now called Military Women Across the Nation) and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
More of her story is at https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.48769/.