Nurses Back from Overseas on USS Refuge
Photographed in the wardroom aboard the Navy’s 14,000-ton hospital ship USS Refuge in New York are five Maryland nurses. Pictured
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WLA Woman Helps Harvest Tobacco on Husband’s Farm
Mrs. Sam Crawford helps with tobacco harvesting on her husband’s farm in Maryland. She wears the Women’s Land Army uniform.
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Hospital Corps School WAVES at Bethesda, Maryland
Hospital Apprentices Second Class Ruth C. Isaacs, Katherine Horton and Inez Patterson (left to right) are the first African-American WAVES
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First Hospital Corps School Opens in Bethesda, Maryland
First hospital corps school for the Navy’s Women’s Reserve at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, opened 12 January 1944,
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Navy Nurse Delivers Lecture at WAVES Hospital Corps School
WAVES Hospital Corps School hold open house for invited guests on their first anniversary in Bethesda, Maryland. A lecture on
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Rescued POW Nurse Recuperates at Bethesda
Lieutenant Dorothy Still recuperates from her Prisoner of War ordeal at the National Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, in the spring
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WAVES Recruits at Hospital Training School
WAVES recruits in the training school at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, enjoy a joke with one of
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Enlisted WAVES Register in the Liberty Log
U.S. Navy enlisted WAVES registering in the liberty log, at the Master-at-Arms’ office of a Naval facility, April 1943. The
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