Photo #: NH 97525
"WAVES, Nurses, 'Go Below""
"The submarine branch of the U.S. Navy is strictly marked
'Men Only', but there is a group of women in uniform who now
have some idea of just what 'sub duty' entails. The group is
comprised of a number of WAVES who visited the sub base at New
London, Conn., and the Navy nurses who are assigned to duty there.
The WAVES went through parts of the training routine for the
experience, but the nurses underwent the drill as a matter of
business, in order to aid them in treating casualties."
"The Pressure is on -- Going through parts of the regular
routine undergone by students at the New London sub base, visiting
WAVES spend some minutes in the pressure tank." Quoted from
the original caption released with this photograph on 14 September
1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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