Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Jane M. Falls, USNR(W) gets ready to shoot the stars with a bubble sextant (or octant) on a night operational flight over the ocean. This is part of her job as an air navigation instructor at the U.S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Camp Kearney, California. LtJG Falls is one of eighty WAVES officers designated as Air Navigators, the first women in any U.S. military organization entitled to perform duties as part of a military crew. They served as instructors, and as trans-ocean navigators in areas where WAVES were assigned to duty. They had received navigation training with Navy men at Hollywood, Florida, and Shawnee, Oklahoma, flew on the same cross-country check flights and graduated in the same classes. 13 July 1945.
