Title	[Four WAVES laughing, circa 1945]
Date	1945
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	Jaenn Coz Bailey (second from right) and three fellow WAVES have a hearty laugh while standing beside a residential street, circa 1945.
Veteran's name	Bailey, Jaenn Magdalene Coz
Veteran's biography	Jaenn Coz Bailey of Sacramento, California, decoded and filed top secret messages during her service with the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from October 1944 until May 1946 . Jaenn Magdalene Coz Bailey was born in Fresno, California, and grew up in Sacramento, California. She graduated from C.K. McClatchy High School in 1943 and worked at the California State Library." Bailey joined the WAVES in the fall of 1944 and attended basic training at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York. In December 1944 she was sent to the Naval Communications Annex in Washington, D.C., where she typed and filed top-secret decoded messages, helped organize a library of classified materials, and delivered dispatches to the White House." She left the WAVES as a first class petty officer in May 1946 and married Chuck Bailey. They both attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the GI Bill from 1946 until 1950. They lived in California for several years before her husband was called back into the military for the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bailey remained involved in the Reserve Officer’s Association League and passed away in November 2000.
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	WV0141 Jaenn Coz Bailey Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0141.6.005
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	900811590

[Four WAVES laughing, circa 1945]

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