Title	[WAVES aerial gunnery unit, 1945]
Date	1945-09
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Group photo of WAVES Aerial Gunnery Unit 3A2 poses outside of barracks at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, in September of 1945." Pictured (L to R) are: Back row: June Osbourne, Claire Calloway, Shirley Dickstew, Yvonne Forbes, Helen Dolan, Mary Burmingham, Marion Browne, Pat Connolly, Alice Robinson, Hazel Brown, and Sally Moore. Forth row: Jindie Bys[?], Jo Puckett, Helen Studlieu, Rokie Graves, Flossie Bruss, and Hazel Smith. Third row: Jean Wear, Jo Jenouski(Sachs), Betty Brackett Robinson, Peg Pritchard, Jennie Leied, Eva Christensen, Martha Fell, Betty Rucker, Anne O'Brien, and Betty Cottrell. Second row: Betty Hayes, Helen Shay, Winnie Donellan[?], Jani Wherle, Adelaide Silver, and Pat McNutt. First row: Tennesse[e] (Phyllis Roberts), Jean Thurck, Evelyn Marsh, Mr. Perry, Anne Holder, Jean Bullett, and Jig Shaft. The names of Martha Turner, Connie Alzonzi, Carol Adams, Dorothy Sipe, Ethel Kimzie[?], and Edna Arut are also listed.
Veteran's name	Andavall, Ann E. Holder
Veteran's biography	Ann Andavall-Holder (b. 1921) of Ashland, Oregon, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as an aerial gunnery instructor during World War II. Ann Andavall-Holder was born in New York City in 1921. After her father’s death, she spent much of early life constantly moving around the United States and England with her mother. At the age of sixteen, following her mother’s death, she appointed her mother’s doctor as her legal guardian. Andavall-Holder completed her secondary education in a Catholic boarding school. At the insistence of her guardian’s wife, Andavall-Holder enrolled at the Pratt Institute to study Home Economics. After two years of instruction she dropped out to work for Liberty Aircraft in New York City. The Liberty war plant, a subsidiary of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, manufactured ailerons for the F45-Wildcat fighter aircraft . After working at Liberty Aircraft for just over a year, Andavall-Holder enrolled in the WAVES. She received her basic training at Hunter College, New York. She was stationed at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida. While stationed at Pensacola she served as an aerial gunnery instructor responsible for training male instructors for the GUN-AIR and 3A2 gunnery programs. After the war Andavall-Holder returned to civilian life and received her bachelor’s degree at Syracuse University. While attending college she met and married her husband.
Place	Pensacola (Fla.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Posed military unit
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	WV0444 Ann Holder Andavall 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	WV0444.6.002
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	900815326

[WAVES aerial gunnery unit, 1945]

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