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Title
[WAVES
on
parade
ground
at
Hunter
College
Navy
Training
Base]
Date
Undated
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
In this
photo
likely
members
of
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service—U.S
.
Navy)
Company
68-44
Battalion
Two
,
U.S
.
Navy
, are
marching
on the
parade
ground
at
Hunter
College
in
Bronx
,
New
York
. They
wear
the
standard
WAVES
white
short
sleeve
t-shirt
,
black
tie
,
white
cover
with
blue
cap
, and
white
dress
with
unique
iron
fold
.
All
wear
the
standard
WAVES-issued
oxford
shoes
. At the
end
of the
formation
the
United
States
flag
and
another
flag
with a
fouled
anchor
and
propeller
device
, the
official
training
flag
of the
WAVES
center
at
Hunter
College
.
Veteran's name
Bean, Willa Walker
Veteran's biography
Willa
Walker
Bean
(b
.
1919)
of
Columbia
,
South
Carolina,served
as a
pharmacist
in the
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service
U.S
.
Navy)
from
1944-1945
.
Place
New
York
(N.Y.)
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
WV0491 Willa Walker Bean Papers
Collection summary
June
2010
oral
history
interview
audio
recording
,
one
photograph
,
digitized
copies
of
six
other
photographs
and
copies
of
military
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
WV0491.6.003
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
900815570
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