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Title
[Janet
Mead
in
front
of
dining
hall
, ca.
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
Janet
M
.
Mead
stands
in
front
of the
dinning
hall
at
Naval
Air
Station
Seattle
,
Washington
,
where
she was
stationed
from
February
1945
to
August
1946
. She
wears
the
WAVES
service
dress
jacket
,
skirt
,
barracks
cap
, and
handbag
.
Veteran's name
Mead, Janet Muriel
Veteran's biography
Janet
Muriel
Mead
(1923-2009)
of
Sand
Creek
,
Michigan
,
served
as a
radioman
3rd
class
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
during
World
War
II
.
Janet
Muriel
Mead
(1923-2009)
of
Sand
Creek
,
Michigan
,
joined
the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
in
August
1944
.
Following
basic
training
at
Hunter
College
in
Bronx
,
New
York
,
Mead
attended
radio
school
at
Miami
University
in
Oxford
,
Ohio
. In
February
1945
,
Mead
was
stationed
at the
Naval
Air
Station
Seattle
(Sand
Point)
. She was
discharged
from the
WAVES
in
August
1946
,
shortly
after
her
marriage
to
Jack
Helm
.
Place
Seattle
(Wash.)
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
WV0389 Janet Muriel Mead Letters, 1940 - 1955
Collection summary
The
collection
contains
letters
written
by
Mead
to her
parents
throughout
her
military
career
, as
well
as
during
the
mid-1950s
, and
photographs
of
Meade
,
other
WAVES
, and the
Naval
Air
Station
Seattle
.
Box
1
Folder
5: Photographs, 1944-1945 and undated
Finding aid link
http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=306
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
WV0389.6.007
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
900814646
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