[Ann Henning Moore, circa 1945]
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Title |
[Ann Henning Moore, circa 1945] |
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Date |
1945 |
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Date approximate? |
yes |
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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 |
Formal portrait of Ann Henning Moore in WAVES uniform, circa 1945. |
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Veteran's name |
Moore, Mary Ann Henning |
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Veteran's biography |
M. Ann Henning Moore (b. 1924) of Albemarle, North Carolina, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from October 1944 until August 1946 .
Mary Ann Henning Moore was born in 1924 and grew up in Albemarle, North Carolina. She attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1941 until October 1944, when Moore joined the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
She attended basic training, Officer Candidate School, and communications school at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. After communications school in early 1945, Moore served in Washington, D.C., at the naval communications office encoding and decoding messages from ships. She left the WAVES as an ensign in August 1946 .
From September 1946 to October 1947, Moore attended the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She then studied German at Columbia University in New York, New York. From 1948 to 1949, Moore worked for the Marshall Plan in Washington, D.C. She married a former Marine Air Corps pilot in 1950 and had five children. She and her family lived in Orange, Virginia, until her husband's retirement from Woodberry Forest School, when they moved to Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Image type |
Formal portrait |
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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 |
WV0102 Ann Henning Moore 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. |
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Object ID |
WV0102.6.001 |
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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 |
900811784 |
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