Sugar Camp WAVES Cabin

In April 1943, Col. Edward A. Deeds opened the residential cabins at Sugar Camp, built several years earlier as a summer school for sales personnel, to house the WAVES, Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service, working in a joint top-secret World War II code-breaking project for the U.S. Navy and NCR. Initially 300 women were housed in the sixty cabins and had access to a dining hall, four classrooms, a recreation building, administration building, outdoor swimming pool, and baseball diamond. Hand-picked by the Navy, these women filled essential jobs in the manufacture and operation of critical code-breaking machines, especially the American Bombe, which significantly hastened the end of the war.

Dayton, Ohio · United States