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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
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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
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
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