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Title	[Winifred Taylor Kuehn, circa 1944]
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	Portrait of Winifred Taylor Kuehn in WAVES uniform, circa 1944.
Veteran's name	Kuehn, Winifred Taylor
Veteran's biography	Winifred E. Kuehn of Wilmington, Delaware, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1942 until 1945 . Winifred “Winnie” Taylor Kuehn was born in Riverton, Maryland, and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from high school in 1937 and then earned a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of Delaware at Newark. She taught English at Henry C. Conrad High School in Wilmington from the fall 1941 to the spring of 1942." In summer 1942, Kuehn joined the first class of U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). She left for basic training at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in October. In December 1942, she was assigned to the Eastern Sea Frontier in New York City, New York, where she was a watch officer supervising decoding. In spring 1945, Kuehn was transferred to Wahiawa, Hawaii, to work in communications at Navy Radio 41. Her final duty station was Honolulu, Hawaii. Kuehn left the WAVES and returned home by the end of 1945 . Kuehn returned to the University of Delaware to work in alumni affairs and public relations. She married Ralph Kuehn and the couple moved often, eventually settling in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0127 Winifred Taylor Kuehn 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	WV0127.6.001
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	900811117

[Winifred Taylor Kuehn, circa 1944]

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