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Title	[Betty and Phillip Caccavale on wedding day, 1945]
Date	1945-02-02
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Betty Hyatt Caccvale and Phillip Caccavale stand outside a brick building on their wedding day, Feb 2, 1945. Both are in uniform, and Hyatt wears an overcoat and garrison cap, holding her white gloves.
Veteran's name	Caccavale, Elizabeth Hyatt
Veteran's biography	Elizabeth 'Betty' Hyatt Caccavale (b. 1923), of Walnut Grove, South Carolina, served as a cryptographer in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from February 1943 to May 1945 . Elizabeth 'Betty' Hyatt Caccavale was born in Walnut Grove, South Carolina, on 6 January 1923. She graduated from Spartanburg High School in 1940, and then worked as a secretarial assistant at two insurance businesses . Caccavale joined the WAVES in February 1943. She attended basic training at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and then was assigned to Washington, D.C., to decode Japanese naval communications at the Naval Intelligence Office. She married Philip Caccavale in February 1945 and left the service in May 1945. The Caccavales moved to New York, where Betty worked on Wall Street and her husband started a fuel business. They had two children, and after they were grown, Betty attended Queens College in Queens, New York.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0095 Betty Hyatt Caccavale Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0095.6.002
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	900811315

[Betty and Phillip Caccavale on wedding day, 1945]

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