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Title
[Wedding
photo
of
Andree
and
Donald
Fifield
,
1945]
Date
1945-06-29
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Andree
Wetzler
and
Donald
I
.
Fifield
walk
down
the
aisle
after
exchanging
vows
at
Western
Presbyterian
Church
in
Washington
,
D.C.
, on
June
29
,
1945
.
Although
Donald
is
in
uniform
,
Andree
wears
a
wedding
dress
; the
ceremony
occurred
shortly
after
a
directive
authorizing
WAVES
, with
permission
, to be
married
out
of
uniform
.
Veteran's name
Fifield, Andree B. Wetzler
Veteran's biography
Andr'e
B
.
Fifield
(1921-2011)
was a
secretary
for the
Office
of
Naval
Intelligence
and
Joint
Chiefs
of
Staff
as a
member
of the
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
from
1943
to
1945
.
Andr'e
B
.
Wetzler
Fifield
was
born
in
New
York
City
and
raised
in
Michigan
,
France
, and
New
York
with
adoptive
parents
. She
attended
Erasmus
Hall
High
School
in
Brooklyn
, but
graduated
from a
high
school
in
Sayville
,
Long
Island
, in
1940
. She
went
on to
attend
Bryant
College
, a
two-year
business
school
in
Providence
,
Rhode
Island
,
where
she
met
her
future
husband
.
After
graduation
,
Fifield
moved
to
York
,
Pennsylvania
, with her
foster
family
and
worked
as a
secretary
at
York
Safe
and
Lock
Company
. She
later
moved
with them to
Chicago
and
worked
for the
government
at the
Salary
Stabilization
Unit
.
On
13
March
1943
,
Fifield
enlisted
in the
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
. She was in
one
of the
first
classes
assigned
to
basic
training
at
Cedar
Falls
,
Iowa
.
After
basic
, she was
sent
to
Washington
,
D.C.
,
where
she
briefly
worked
in the
National
Archives
(NARA)
while
waiting
for
security
clearance
to
become
a
secretary
in the
Office
of
Naval
Intelligence
.
Fifield
went
on to
work
for the
Joint
Chiefs
of
Staff
in the
Pentagon
Building
and
briefly
for the
Office
of the
President
. She was
discharged
from the
WAVES
in
October
1945
.
Andr'e
Fifield
married
Donald
Fifield
in
1945
.
After
the
war
they
lived
in
Chicago
while
he
attended
school
and then
worked
for
Campbell
Soup
Company
. They
moved
to
Boston
in
1948
and then to
Albany
,
New
York
in
1955
.
Three
years
later
the
Fifields
moved
to
Syracuse
,
New
York
,
where
they
remained
for
twenty-two
years
.
During
this
time
Fifield
worked
as a
decorator
for
Sears
Roebuck
and
gave
birth
to
two
children
. The
Fifields
went
on to
live
in
New
Hampshire
and
Pinehurst
,
North
Carolina
. She
died
on
18
May
,
2011
.
Place
Washington
(D.C.)
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
WV0070 Andree Fifield 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
WV0070.6.002
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
900811326
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