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Anoxic Faint Chamber

Date: 02 1945
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 ...
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Flight Nurse with Her Father

Date: 1943
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...
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Nurse in Scrub Room

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, is washing her hands in the 148th General Hospital's scrub room. Hyland is wearing a white cloth around her hair, ...
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Nurse Boarding Jeep

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, boarding a Jeep at 148th General Hospital in Saipan. Hyland is wearing a striped jumpsuit and has her hair tied up...
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Imprisoned Navy Nurses Come Home

Date: 03 1945
Description: Two nurses, Leona Jackson, left, and Mary Rose Harrington Nelson, right, return to Guam after being imprisoned in Los Banos, Philippines, for over two year...
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Female Marine Carpenter

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea...
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Female Marine Engineer

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private first class Ann D. Dozier, a refrigerating engineer from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, posing for a photograph at the Mauna Loa R...
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Coconuts

Date: 11 05 1943
Description: Lieutenant Jeanette Loree of East Lansing, Michigan (left) and Lieutenant Dorothy Watts of Jackson, Michigan (right), pose with a coconut and its husk. A b...
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Dorothy (Hines) Mosher Climbing into an Airplane

Date: 1944
Description: Dorothy Mosher climbing into a biplane. She is wears leather pants and a jacket.
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Dorothy (Hines) Mosher

Date: 1944
Description: Informal outdoor portrait of Dorothy Mosher wearing flying gear.
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Dorothy (Hines) Mosher and Pat Hoskins

Date: 1944
Description: Dorothy Mosher and Pat Hoskins leaning against an airplane.
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Alice Tobey as Joan of Arc

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Alice Tobey, in costume as Joan of Arc from Friedrich Schiller's The Maid of Orleans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans).

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