What happens
Dr. Paul Johnson, a Navy doctor, is assigned to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, where he is now responsible for the women recruits, known as Waves. Seaman Recruit Whitney Young arrives late and is soon billeted with Mary Kate Yarbrough, who is struggling with homesickness and longs for her former sweetheart, Dick. Whitney tries to help her find a way out of the service. Meanwhile, Whitney and Mary Kate go out on their first leave in Chicago, where Whitney meets a civilian man named John Smith. The story follows the recruits' attempts to adjust to military life and the complications that arise from their leave.
The Great Lakes Naval Training Center and the city of Chicago, during the period when women first enlist in the United States Navy.
Characters: Whitney Young, Paul Johnson, Mary Kate Yarbrough, Nancy Yancy, Dick, Arthur Dunlap, Archie O'Connor, Patty Mosher
Listen for: Whitney's efforts to help Mary Kate, and the events of the Chicago leave where Whitney meets a man calling himself John Smith.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.