Coast Guard Womans Reserve(SPAR) Blue Jacket Manual- 1943

[Paul R]

Here is a great book that I won on Ebay a while back. It is for a member of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPAR) during WW2. This book is really great in that it is signed by her shipmates whom she went through bootcamp with.

This is the book issued to personnel when the enter boot camp with the Coast Guard. I think that the Navy and the Coast Guard shared the same Blue Jacket Manual during WW2.

[Paul R]

Here is the person whom the book was issued during boot camp.

[Paul R]

Here are some of the inscriptions made by her shipmates. These signatures usually were entered into the books by fellow training company recruits upon graduation from bootcamp. When I went through, we did the same sort of thing on our Sea-Bags.

[Paul R]

Another page... this one is rather touching.

[Paul R]

Here is a SPAR recruiting poster. Pretty cool stuff.