[Portrait of Elaine Harmon, 1944]
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Title |
[Portrait of Elaine Harmon, 1944] |
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Date |
1944 |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) |
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Item description |
Portrait of Elaine Harmon, in 1944, in WASP A2 leather jacket with Fifinella patch and a flight helmet with goggles. |
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Veteran's name |
Harmon, Elaine Danforth |
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Veteran's biography |
Elaine Danforth Harmon (1919-2015) of Baltimore, Maryland, served in the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) in 1944 .
Elaine Danforth Harmon was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1919, the second of three girls. Her father played professional baseball and was a dentist, and her mother was a housewife. Harmon graduated from Eastern High School in Baltimore in 1936 and then attended the University of Maryland. While there, Harmon joined the Civilian Pilot Training Program in College Park and got her private pilot's license. She graduated with a degree in microbiology in 1940 .
Harmon was married on 26 July 1941 and traveled with her husband, often getting jobs related to serology, while he did civilian war work in the United States. At his encouragement, Harmon joined the WASP in March 1944. She attended WASP training at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, and graduated on 11 November 1944. Until the WASP disbanded on 20 December 1944, Harmon was stationed at Nellis Air Force |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Image type |
Formal portrait |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0359 Elaine Danforth Harmon Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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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. |
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Object ID |
WV0359.6.001 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
900813950 |
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