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[WAVES navy blue garrison cap, 1945]

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Title	[WAVES navy blue garrison cap, 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	WAVES navy blue garrison cap, authorized for wear by enlisted women and officers in January 1945. Worn by Blanche W. Haggard in 1945.
Veteran's name	Haggard, Blanche Woolard
Veteran's biography	Blanche Woolard Haggard of Wilson, North Carolina, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1942 to 1945 . Blanche Woolard Haggard was born in Wilson, North Carolina, and graduated from Charles L. Coon High School. She then attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1942 with a degree in business. She worked briefly as an accountant for Vick Chemical Company in Greensboro before enlisting in the navy." Haggard joined the WAVES in 1943 and was sent to Northampton, Massachusetts, for basic training and Officer Candidate School in January. She was then stationed in Jacksonville, Florida, where she served as a communications officer at the naval air station. While there, she met and married Bill Haggard, who was a member of the Meteorology Department. Haggard was later transferred to Norfolk and was discharged from in 1945." Following the war, the Blanche and Bill Haggard resided in many places, including Tallahassee, Florida; Asheville, North Carolina; and Oxen Hill, Maryland. Haggard worked as a volunteer school librarian, a bookstore clerk, and an employment counselor.
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	WV0040 Blanche Woolard Haggard 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	WV0040.8.001
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	900817321

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