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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 90006

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

Congratulate each other after being being commissioned as the first African-American "WAVES" officers, December 1944.
They were members of the final graduating class of the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School (WR) at Northampton, Massachusetts.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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29 November 1998