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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97258

Recruit Training School (W), Great Lakes, Illinois


"The Navy's top WAVE, Captain Joy Bright Hancock, W, USN, Assistant to the Chief of Naval Personnel, inspects Seaman Recruits at the new WAVE recruit training school, Great Lakes, Illinois." (Quoted from the caption released with the original print by 9th Naval District PIO.)
Probably photographed circa late 1948, as the Recruit Training School (W) was processing its first classes.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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18 February 2000