WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)

Description:

Black and white photograph of four WAVES officers posing for the camera as they are riding a cargo lift up to the top deck on a ship at the Tampa Shipbuilding Company. They are identified from left to right as, Lieutenant Avis Tucker (Communications Officer), Lieutenant Octavie de Beaulieu (Supply Corps and Manager of the BOQ), Lieutenant Susan Magette (Supply Corps and Disbursing Officer), and Ensign Mary Virginia Robertson (Public Information Officer). Handwritten on reverse reads, "A ship about to be launched at Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Tampa, Fla. Note: The WAVE officers were put aboard and 'rode' the ship 'down the ways' as she was launched into Tampa Bay."

• Title: WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)
• Photographer: U.S. Navy Department
• Date: January 1945

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: World War II
• Object Id: MK 18314

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