Photo #: NH 97526
Aerographer's Mate 1st Class Dorothea Shepherd, USNR(W)
"...pictured just prior to receiving her honorable discharge
at Pearl Harbor, Sept. 20, 1945. To Miss Shepherd went the distinction
of becoming the first WAVE to be discharged overseas under the
Navy's point system. Rather than return to the States, she plans
to remain in Hawaii to teach kindergarten at Waianae."
Quoted from the original caption released with this photograph
on 27 September 1945.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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