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"Two Negro SPARS pause on the ladder of the dry-land ship 'U.S.S. Neversail' during their 'boot' training at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, NY. They are recent enlistees and have the ratings of apprentice seaman. In front is SPAR Olivia Hooker and behind her is SPAR Aileen Anita Cooks." |
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"Inspecting a Grumman Wildcat engine on display at the U.S. Naval Training School (WR) Bronx, NY, where she is a 'boot' is a WAVE Apprentice Seaman Frances bates." |
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"Hospital Apprentices second class Ruth C. Isaacs, Katherine Horton and Inez Patterson are the first Negro WAVES to enter the Hospital Corps School at National Medical Center, Bethesda, MD." |
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"Cmdr. Thomas A. Gaylord, USN (Ret'd), administers oath to five new Navy nurses commissioned in New York. Phyllis Mae Dailey, the Navy's first African-American nurse, is second from the right." |
