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Title |
[WAVES pass in review, 1946] |
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Date |
1946-04-13 |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Navy--WAVES |
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Item description |
Three WAVES, including Francis Barringer Bailey in the center, salute as pass in review at U.S. Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, on April 13, 1946. Male navy officers stand on a raised platform to take the review, with service men in khaki uniforms standing at attention to their right. |
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Veteran's name |
Bailey, Frances Barringer |
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Veteran's biography |
Frances B. Bailey (b. 1920) of Concord, North Carolina, worked in supply, disbursing, and payroll in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from April 1943 to October 1946. She then resumed her career in education as a math teacher and school administrator in the Carolinas .
Frances Barringer Bailey (b. 1920) grew up in Concord, North Carolina, and graduated from Concord High School in 1936. She attended Pfeiffer Junior College in Misenheimer, North Carolina, for two years, and then transferred to the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). After graduating with a bachelor's degree in math in 1940, she taught in Troy, North Carolina, for two years. After six weeks of training at N.C. State University, Bailey went to Baltimore, Maryland, to work in the civil service inspecting gas mask gauges." In April 1943, Bailey joined the WAVES and boarded a train for Massachusetts. She attended basic training at Smith College for six weeks and then supply school at Radcliffe College. Bailey was first assigned to Montauk Point, New York, but went instead to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois, where she worked in receiving and payroll. In the summer of 1945 she was sent to Corpus Christi, Texas, where she worked in the dispersing and payroll offices. Bailey was discharged from the WAVES as a lieutenant on 4 October 1946 .
After a vacation to the West Coast, Bailey returned to Chicago and worked for A.B. Dick, a mimeograph company. She later moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she met and married William E. Bailey in 1950. The couple moved to Greensboro, where Frances Baily taught at Greensboro High School. She continued her career in education in Lancaster, South Carolina, as a teacher and administrator, and as a math program supervisor. She later moved to Florence, South Carolina. |
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Place |
Corpus Christi (Tex.) |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Image type |
Posed military unit |
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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 |
WV0069 Frances Barringer Bailey 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. If published, credit line must read |
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Object ID |
WV0069.6.005 |
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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 |
900810465 |
