The United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known as the WAVES for the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, was the World War II women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAVES
Writer credit revised from Paul Gustavson to ? by Craig Delich on April 4, 2013. Jim Amash in the Quality Companion verifies that Gustavson wrote this feature through Police (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #22, then picked up again with #37. The intervening writer is unknown.
Paul's son, Terry, said that he never saw any of his Dad's work leave his Dad's studio that he had not penciled, inked, and lettered.