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Title
[Portrait
of
Jaenn
Coz
Bailey
,
circa
1945]
Date
1945
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
Jaenn
Coz
Bailey
in
WAVES
white
service
dress
uniform
and
service
hat
,
circa
1945
.
Veteran's name
Bailey, Jaenn Magdalene Coz
Veteran's biography
Jaenn
Coz
Bailey
of
Sacramento
,
California
,
decoded
and
filed
top
secret
messages
during
her
service
with the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
from
October
1944
until
May
1946
.
Jaenn
Magdalene
Coz
Bailey
was
born
in
Fresno
,
California
, and
grew
up
in
Sacramento
,
California
. She
graduated
from
C.K
.
McClatchy
High
School
in
1943
and
worked
at the
California
State
Library.
"
Bailey
joined
the
WAVES
in the
fall
of
1944
and
attended
basic
training
at
Hunter
College
in the
Bronx
,
New
York
. In
December
1944
she was
sent
to the
Naval
Communications
Annex
in
Washington
,
D.C.
,
where
she
typed
and
filed
top-secret
decoded
messages
,
helped
organize
a
library
of
classified
materials
, and
delivered
dispatches
to the
White
House.
" She
left
the
WAVES
as a
first
class
petty
officer
in
May
1946
and
married
Chuck
Bailey
. They
both
attended
the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Chapel
Hill
on the
GI
Bill
from
1946
until
1950
. They
lived
in
California
for
several
years
before
her
husband
was
called
back
into the
military
for the
Korean
War
and the
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
.
Bailey
remained
involved
in the
Reserve
Officer’s
Association
League
and
passed
away
in
November
2000
.
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
WV0141 Jaenn Coz Bailey Papers
Rights statement
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IN
COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0141.6.001
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
900811588
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