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Title	[WAVES in snow at Smith College, circa 1942]
Date	1943
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	Leila Stevens (right) and a fellow WAVE stand in the snow at Smith College, Massachusetts, circa 1942.
Veteran's name	Terry, Henrietta Pearl
Veteran's biography	Henrietta Pearl Terry (b. 1904) served in the U.S. Navy WAVES from 1942 to 1945 . Henrietta Pearl Terry, a professor of mathematics, joined the WAVES in 1942. Lieutenant Terry was trained as an aerologist and stationed at the US Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia. As an aerologist she accompanied many flight crews, but according to her diary and flight log she learned to fly and often piloted these planes herself.
Place	Northampton (Mass.)
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	WV0197 Henrietta Pearl Terry Papers
Collection summary	Photographs; service diary; military papers, flight log; U.S. Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia Pictorial Review, ca. 1943-1945; WAVES of the Navy: A Story of the Women's Reserve Activities at the Naval Air Station by Eunice A. Horne; Certificate of Satisfactory Service ID Card, 1946; Officer's Cap Device; Lieutenant's Collar Bars; Honorable Service "Ruptured Duck" Pin. Related Collection: The Henrietta Pearl Terry Collection (MSS 173); in the Manuscripts Collection providesArtifacts, biographical information, correspondence, photographs, a scrapbook, diaries, and memorabilia relating to Terry's life before and after her military service.
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	WV0197.6.016
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	900812265

[WAVES in snow at Smith College, circa 1942]

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