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Ensign Wills and LT(jg) Pickens Packing After Graduation

October 11, 2017October 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, Frances Wills, graduation, Harriet Ida Pickens, Massachusetts, midshipmens school, Northampton, packing

Ensign Frances Wills (right) helps Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harriet Ida Pickens pack her suitcase, following their graduation from the Naval

Navy WAVES

Ensign Wills and LT(jg) Pickens Enjoy Lunch

October 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, Frances Wills, Harriet Ida Pickens, Massachusetts, midshipmens school, Northampton, restaurant, WAVES officers

Ensign Frances Wills (left) and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harriet Ida Pickens enjoy lunch following their graduation from the Naval Reserve

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First African-American WAVES Officers to Graduate

October 11, 2017October 11, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, Frances Wills, graduation, Harriet Ida Pickens, Massachusetts, midshipmens school, Northampton, WAVES officers

Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harriet Ida Pickens (left) and Ensign Frances Wills, photographed after graduation from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School

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First African-American WAVES Officers Congratulate Each Other

October 10, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, Frances Wills, Harriet Ida Pickens, Massachusetts, midshipmens school, Northampton, WAVES officers

Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harriet Ida Pickens (left) and Ensign Frances Wills congratulate each other after being being commissioned as the

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African-American WAVES Meet with Civilians in San Diego

October 9, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, California, civilians, Naval Operating Base, San Diego, WAVES

African-American WAVES meeting with a group of visiting civilians at the Naval Operating Base in San Diego, California, 21 June

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Frances Wills and Harriet Ida Pickens are Sworn In

October 9, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, Apprentice Seamen, Frances Wills, Harriet Ida Pickens, New York City, pioneer, WAVES officers

When the Navy decided to begin integrating African-American women into the WAVES program in October 1944, Frances Wills and Harriet

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Harriet Ida Pickens Sworn in as Apprentice Seaman

October 9, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, apprentice seaman, Columbia University, Harriet Ida Pickens, New York City, pioneer, swearing in, WAVES officer

Harriet Ida Pickens, a public health administrator with a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Columbia University, is sworn in

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First African-American WAVES Officers

October 3, 2016February 27, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, midshipmens school, WAVES officers

LTJG Harriet Ida Pickens and ENS Frances Wills were members of the final graduating class at Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School

Army Nurses

Army Nurses Doing Early Morning Workout

October 3, 2016March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, army nurses, australia, exercise, southwest pacific, workout

African-American nurses, commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army Nurses Corps, limber up their muscles in an early-morning workout during

Other War Workers

Willa Beatrice Brown, Civil Air Patrol

October 1, 2016January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, army air forces, civil air patrol, pilot, willa beatrice brown

At 31 years old, Willa Beatrice Brown serves her country by training pilots for the U.S. Army Air Forces. She

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