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| Date: | 04 02 1945 |
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| Description: | U. S. Navy V-12 Chorus, sailors and WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), at the Stock Pavilion, "3rd Anniversary Happy Hour." |
| Date: | 02 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) on the University of Wisconsin campus. |
| Date: | 02 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) attending the Army-Navy Institute on the University of Wisconsi... |
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| Description: | Five women walking up a flight of stairs dressed in civilian clothing and carrying suitcases reporting for duty as WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emer... |
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| Description: | Five women dressed in WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) uniforms saluting and carrying suitcases, probably at the University of Wiscon... |
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| Description: | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) bugler, dressed in WAVES uniform, playing bugle on a staircase. |
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| Description: | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in uniform marching in snow. |
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| Description: | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in a classroom sitting at typewriters listening to headphones studying code. |
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| Description: | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) soldier saluting superimposed in front of an image of the American Flag and a gun crew on a ship. |
| Date: | 02 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of group of women gathered around a table. "Leap year baby" of 1924, Anita Burr, is shown with a birthday cake, after enlisting in t... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | WAVES Design No. 2, "WAVE and Sailors." The poster features a woman in a naval uniform, with two sailors standing behind her. WAVES is the acronym for Wome... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | WAVES Unnumbered Design, "Mother and Daughter." The poster features a proud mother with her arm around her daughter, who is in naval uniform. In the backgr... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Women's Army Corps (WAC) Design No. 1, "I'd Rather Be with Them." The poster features a young woman in military uniform with a pack on her shoulders and a ... |
| Date: | 06 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Ellen Fletcher used an inheritance to fly her mother and father in-laws from Birmingham, England to Madison to witness their sons graduation from... |
| Date: | 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn holiday card of a woman soldier in front of McCloskey General Hospital. She is in uniform and is saluting. There are cacti (cactus) in the foreg... |
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| Description: | Six female flight nurses posing outdoors. The women are wearing bathing suits and holding life vests around their necks at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip d... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A female flight nurse during flight training with patients. She is leaning over the patient in a bunk bed to place a mask. The student is wearing a heavy l... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, visiting with her parents as she prepares to leave U.S. soil. Jensen is kneeling on the floor as her parents are sitting on a be... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurses, newly arrived in Agana Airport, Guam, searching for their luggage as two other women are looking on. The two flight nurses have just complet... |
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