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Title	[Four WAVES and a sailor, circa 1946]
Date	1946
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	Five U.S. Navy members pose outside a building at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, circa 1946. The WAVES are identified as colleagues of Francis B. Bailey, who worked in the base's dispersing and payroll offices.
Veteran's name	Bailey, Frances Barringer
Veteran's biography	Frances B. Bailey (b. 1920) of Concord, North Carolina, worked in supply, disbursing, and payroll in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from April 1943 to October 1946. She then resumed her career in education as a math teacher and school administrator in the Carolinas . Frances Barringer Bailey (b. 1920) grew up in Concord, North Carolina, and graduated from Concord High School in 1936. She attended Pfeiffer Junior College in Misenheimer, North Carolina, for two years, and then transferred to the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). After graduating with a bachelor's degree in math in 1940, she taught in Troy, North Carolina, for two years. After six weeks of training at N.C. State University, Bailey went to Baltimore, Maryland, to work in the civil service inspecting gas mask gauges." In April 1943, Bailey joined the WAVES and boarded a train for Massachusetts. She attended basic training at Smith College for six weeks and then supply school at Radcliffe College. Bailey was first assigned to Montauk Point, New York, but went instead to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois, where she worked in receiving and payroll. In the summer of 1945 she was sent to Corpus Christi, Texas, where she worked in the dispersing and payroll offices. Bailey was discharged from the WAVES as a lieutenant on 4 October 1946 . After a vacation to the West Coast, Bailey returned to Chicago and worked for A.B. Dick, a mimeograph company. She later moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she met and married William E. Bailey in 1950. The couple moved to Greensboro, where Frances Baily taught at Greensboro High School. She continued her career in education in Lancaster, South Carolina, as a teacher and administrator, and as a math program supervisor. She later moved to Florence, South Carolina.
Place	Corpus Christi (Tex.)
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	WV0069 Frances Barringer Bailey 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	WV0069.6.010
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	900810915

[Four WAVES and a sailor, circa 1946]

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