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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

[WAVES on parade ground at Hunter College Navy Training Base]

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