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Title	[Wendy Gellert poses recruit instructors at Naval Training Center, circa 1972]
Date	1972
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. Navy--Women
Era	Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch	Navy
Item description	Wendy Gellert, fifth from the left, stands with her fellow instructors for the recruit company commander school based in Orlando, Florida. She wears the United States Navy blue dress uniform with cap, dress gloves, and standard shoes. Above her shirt pocket on the right side is the United States Navy aircrewman wings insignia. The red aiguillette signifies her new status as a recruit instructor for the U.S. Navy . " Text written on photograph:"Drill Instructors 1972-1973"
Veteran's name	Gellert, Wendy Payor
Veteran's biography	Wendy Payor Gellert (b. 1947) of New Brunswick, New Jersey, served as a chief photographer's mate and a recruit intstructor in the U.S. Navy from 1966-1992 .
Place	Orlando (Fla.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Posed military unit
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	WV0493 Wendy P. Gellert Papers
Collection summary	This collection contains a June 2010 oral history interview,military papers, copies of photographs of both Gellert and also those taken by her in her role as a U.S. Navy photographer. The collection also includes copies of Rudder, the Orlando, Florida Naval Training Center Yearbook from 1974, 1978 and 1979.
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	WV0493.6.015
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	900815648

[Wendy Gellert poses recruit instructors at Naval Training Center, circa 1972]

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