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Navy WAVES 

Graduating Class of WAVES Yeoman Training School

September 11, 2017February 21, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments commanding officer, Georgia, graduation, Milledgeville, Naval Training School, WAVES school, yeoman

New Yeoman WAVES stand at attention during the graduation review at the Naval Training School in Milledgeville, Georgia. Lieut. Comdr.

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WAVES of the Air Transport Squadron 12 (VR-12)

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Air Transport Squadron, link trainer, naval air station, quonset hut, Quonset Point, rating badges, Rhode Island, specialist, squadron, VR-12

First group of WAVES to report for duty with VR-12, 24 July 1945. They are in the Link trainer building,

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Mildred McAfee at Female Officer Commissioning Ceremony

September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Coast Guard, Coast Guard SPARS, Commissioning Ceremony, Hunter College, La Guardia, Mildred McAfee, Navy WAVES, New York City, Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, training school

Commissioning ceremony at the new training school for female Navy (WAVES) and Coast Guard (SPARS) officers located at Hunter College

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Sailors and WAVES Enjoy a Boat Ride While on Leave

September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Aviation Machinist's Mate, boat ride, leave, liberty, Louisiana, naval air station, New Orleans, Pharmacist's Mate, rowboat, sailors, WAVES

Sailors and WAVES from Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, enjoy a boat ride while on leave. It appears that

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WAVES Officers Watch Ship Coming Out of Building Dock

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments building dock, christening, Mildred H. McAfee, Newport News, USS Franklin, Virginia, WAVES officers

The USS Franklin (CV-13) is floated out of her building dock immediately after christening, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and

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WAVES Learn How to Tie Down Cargo

September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Aviation Metalsmith, California, cargo, Douglas R4D transport plane, naval air station, Naval Air Transport Service School, Oakland, WAVES students

Aviation Metalsmith J.J. Lombardo shows WAVES students of the Naval Air Transport Service School at Naval Air Station, Oakland, California,

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WAVES Study Link Celestial Navigation

September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Aviation Machinist's Mate, Link Celestial Navigation, naval air station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, Seattle, students, training, Washington

Three WAVES study Link Celestial Navigation at the Navy Link Celestial Navigation Trainer Operators and Maintenance School at the Naval

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Moffett Field WAVES Filing Liberty Cards

September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments California, color photo, liberty cards, Moffett Field, Personnel Office, seaman, watch assignments, yeoman

WAVES file liberty cards at Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, California, circa 1944-45. Yeoman 2nd Class Donna Neubauer (right) and

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WAVES of the Naval Code Room

September 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Captain Wyman Packard, Naval Code Room, washington dc, Washington Monument, WWII WAVES

WAVES of Watch # 3 at the Naval Code Room, photographed on the grounds of temporary buildings in Washington, D.C.,

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WAVES Model Gray Summer Working Uniforms

September 4, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments ensign, Lincoln Memorial, seersucker, shirtwaist dress, Uniform of the Day, washington dc, WAVES uniforms, working uniforms, yeoman

WAVES gray summer working uniforms are modeled by Ensign Eloise English (left) and Yeoman 3rd Class Virginia Laws, at the

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