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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
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.
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.
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
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