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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

[Wedding photo of Andree and Donald Fifield, 1945]

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