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[Willa Walker Bean, portrait photo, circa 1954]

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Title	[Willa Walker Bean, portrait photo, circa 1954]
Date	1944
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	Willa Walker wears the postwar blue outdoor uniform. On her lapel is the standard Navy Nurse Corps Insignia. She appears to have on a WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service—U.S.Navy) officer's cap which may be out of regulation.
Veteran's name	Bean, Willa Walker
Veteran's biography	Willa Walker Bean (b. 1919) of Columbia, South Carolina,served as a pharmacist in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service U.S. Navy) from 1944-1945 .
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	WV0491 Willa Walker Bean Papers
Collection summary	June 2010 oral history interview audio recording, one photograph, digitized copies of six other photographs and copies of military papers.
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	WV0491.6.001
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	900815419

[Willa Walker Bean, portrait photo, circa 1954]

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