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Photo #: 80-G-272754

Transporting WAVES by air, November 1944


WAVEs at a Navy air terminal while en route to Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kansas, via a Navy transport plane. Most of the enlisted WAVES are strikers for the rate of Specialist (Transport Airman), and are , accompanied by their instructor, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Helen J. Merrill
Those present are (from left to right): Seaman 2nd Class Gloria Marx; Seaman 2nd Class Marilyn Wheeler; Seaman 2nd Class Helen Ranlett; Seaman 2nd Class Gale Collier; LtJG Merrill; Yeoman 2nd Class Carolyn Fish; Yeoman 2nd Class Helen Niravelli; and Seaman 2nd Class Margaret Chapman.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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28 February 2001