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Photo #: 80-G-399010

Lieutenant Joy Bright Hancock, USNR


After being presented with the World War I service ribbon by Admiral Ernest J. King, at the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., circa October 1942. She had served as a Yeoman First Class (F) during World War I.

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

Online Image: 46KB; 595 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

Note:
An amusing story involving this ribbon is told in Capt. Joy Bright Hancock's memoir "Lady in the Navy" (1972), pp.64-65.

 

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22 February 2000