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Object Description
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
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