Ensign Wills and LT(jg) Pickens Packing After Graduation

Ensign Frances Wills (right) helps Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harriet Ida Pickens pack her suitcase, following their graduation from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School (WR) at Northampton, Massachusetts. They were the Navy’s first African-American WAVES officers and graduated with the Northampton school’s final class. Photo taken December 1944.

Photo size: 2389 × 3000
Photo source: Naval History and Heritage Command
Usage: Public Domain