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[WAVES blue winter uniform, circa 1944]

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Title	[WAVES blue winter uniform, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	WAVES officer's dress blue winter uniform with tailored navy blue wool blouse with distinctive rounded collar with WAVES insignia, four gold buttons, and two reserve blue cuff stripes. Worn with white shirtwaist and black seaman's tie and navy blue six-gore skirt with left side zipper and button. Uniforms worn by WAVES were identical to those worn by SPARs except for insignia and labels. This uniform worn by Louise Nash Dorsett from 1944 to 1946.
Veteran's name	Dorsett, Louise Nash
Veteran's biography	Louise Nash Dorsett (1913?-2011) of Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1942 to 1945. Louise Nash (1913?-2011) was born in Boulder, Colorado, and raised in Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, the daughter of a hydroelectric engineer and a teacher. Nash graduated from high school in Mt. Gilead and then attended Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina, for one year. She transferred to the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1934 with a degree in English. She taught school for a short time and then worked for the Carolina Power and Light Company in Raleigh, North Carolina, for six years." Nash joined the WAVES in October 1942. She attended five weeks of basic training at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and was then ordered to the Bureau of Ships in Washington, D.C., in December 1942. She primarily performed administrative work, and she remained in Washington until her discharge in December 1945. Louise Nash married Lieutenant Howard Dorsett on 4 January 1943 in Staten Island, New York. The couple settled in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1946 and then moved to Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, in 1947. She passed away on 11 October, 2011.
Type	image
Original format	textiles
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0017 Louise Nash Dorsett Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0017.8.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900817319

[WAVES blue winter uniform, circa 1944]

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[WAVES blue winter uniform, circa 1944]