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Title
[Julia
Hill
Gunn
with
flag
,
1945]
Date
1945
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Julia
Hill
Gunn
poses
as
guidon
bearer
,
holding
the
flag
pole
at an
angle
and her
other
arm
behind
her
back
,
outside
a
brick
building
at
Hunter
College
in
1945
.
Veteran's name
Gunn, Julia Hill
Veteran's biography
Julia
Hill
Gunn
of
Lexington
,
North
Carolina
, was an
aerographer's
mate
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
from
1945
to
1947
.
Julia
H
.
Gunn
was
born
in
Lexington
,
North
Carolina
, and
graduated
from the
high
school
department
at
Montreat
College
in
Montreat
,
North
Carolina
. In
1941
she
enrolled
at the
Woman's
College
of the
University
of
North
Carolina
(now
the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro)
and
graduated
in
1945
with a
degree
in
chemistry.
"
Gunn
joined
the
WAVES
in
June
1945
and
reported
to
Hunter
College
in
New
York
for
basic
training
. She
attended
the
weather
school
at
Lakehurst
,
New
Jersey
, from
September
to
December
1945
,
training
as an
aerographer's
mate
and
monitoring
weather
patterns
. In
early
1946
she was
transferred
to
Navy
Weather
Central
and
worked
in the
Civilian
Weather
Bureau
Building
in
Washington
,
D.C
.
Gunn
was
discharged
in the
summer
of
1947
.
After
the
war
,
Gunn
did
analytical
chemistry
work
in the
agronomy
lab
at
North
Carolina
State
University
in
Raleigh
,
North
Carolina
. In
1948
she
married
Larry
Gunn
.
Throughout
the
1950s
she
worked
primarily
in
tax
preparation
,
managing
several
H&R
Block
branches
in the
Greensboro
area
.
Place
New
York
(N.Y.)
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
WV0060 Julia Hill Gunn Papers
Collection summary
1999
oral
history
interview
,
photographs
, and
correspondence
.
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
WV0060.6.004
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
900810534
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