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[WAVES dress white summer uniform, circa 1942]

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Title	[WAVES dress white summer uniform, circa 1942]
Date	1942
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 white summer uniform, including tailored white lightweight blouse with distinctive rounded collar with WAVES insignia, four gold buttons, and reserve blue cuff stripes. Worn with white shirtwaist and black seaman's tie and white six-gore skirt with left side zipper and button. This uniform worn by Judith Bullock Nisbet from 1942 to 1945.
Veteran's name	Nisbet, Judith Bullock
Veteran's biography	Judith Bullock Nisbet (1919-2012) of Red Springs, North Carolina, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services) from 1942 to 1945 in the maintenance department of the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C . Judith Bullock Nisbet was born on 4 September 1919 in Red Springs, North Carolina, the youngest of five children born to agronomist George Bullock and his wife, a Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) attendee. Judith spent her childhood in Puerto Rico, where her father worked for American Tobacco Company, and then returned to Red Springs where she attended high school. After graduating from high school, she spent two years at Peace College in Raleigh. Bullock transferred to Woman's College, where she majored in art and graduated in 1941 . In August 1942, while taking defense courses in Raleigh, Nisbet enlisted in the WAVES. She was called up in December and attended basic training in South Hadley, Massachusetts, at Mount Holyoke College. She completed her training in February 1943 and was assigned to Public Works in the maintenance department of the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C. She served as a messenger for several months and then held a series of other jobs in the maintenance department until the end of the war. Nisbet was put on reserve in November 1945 . Nisbet married her first husband, Edward "Shorty" Thomson, on 24 April 1943. After the war they moved to Charlotte and had three children. Edward Thomson died in 1987, and Judith Nisbet remarried in the mid-1990s. Nisbet passed away in January 2012.
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	WV0056 Judith Bullock Nisbet Collection, 1942-1943
Collection summary	An oral history interview, memoir, photographs and textiles primarily document Nisbet's service during World War II. The oral history interview provides information about Nisbet's childhood in Red Springs, N.C., during the Depression, her education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, and her service as a WAVE. Prominent subjects include training at Mount Holyoke College, her military jobs in Washington, D.C., and Presbyterian minister Peter Marshall. Memoir and photographs also document Nisbet's military service. Textiles include a WAVES dress white summer uniform.
Series/grouping	4: Textiles, 1942-1943
Box	1
Folder	2: Dress White Summer Uniform Skirt
Finding aid link	http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=256
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	WV0056.8.001
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	900817280

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