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Photo #: 80-G-297437

Ensign Frances Wills
(left)
and
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harriet Ida Pickens

Enjoy lunch following their graduation from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School (WR) at Northampton, Massachusetts, circa December 1944.
They were members of the school's final class, and were the Navy's first African-American "WAVES" officers.

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

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