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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... |
| 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: | 04 02 1944 |
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| Description: | A man reading a document with two women observing, one of whom is a WAC (Women's Army Corp), at the First Congregational church, 1609 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Four WAC lieutenants posing on the rail of the life launch. From left to right are Virginia Harmon, Jane Dunning, Ardeth Cauble, and Helen Durr. |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Helen Durr diving from the launch, with Ardith Cauble (Gauble?) observing her. |
| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Newly selected Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, receiving an orchid from Virginia Palan, legionnaire and WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency ... |
| Date: | 01 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Glady McConochie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris McConochie of Pardeville, in center, taking her oath from Elmer H. Gibson, at left, commanding officer of ... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Gwen Jensen, a female flight nurse, poses for a photograph during flight training at Alameda Naval Air Strip. In an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ... |
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