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428-GX-USN-1154021: Equipment Operator Constructionman Camella J. Jones, November 1972

428-GX-USN-1154021: Equipment Operator Constructionman Camella J. Jones, November 1972. Equipment Operator Constructionman Camella J. Jones sits at the steering wheel of a road grader at Naval Air Station, Kingsville, Texas.. The twenty-year-old woman is the first woman of the Navy to qualify as a heavy equipment operator and to be assigned to the U.S. Navy construction battalion. Photographed by PH3 Paul Mansfield, received November 1972. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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Caption: 428-GX-USN-1154021: Equipment Operator Constructionman Camella J. Jones, November 1972. Equipment Operator Constructionman Camella J. Jones sits at the steering wheel of a road grader at Naval Air Station, Kingsville, Texas.. The twenty-year-old woman is the first woman of the Navy to qualify as a heavy equipment operator and to be assigned to the U.S. Navy construction battalion. Photographed by PH3 Paul Mansfield, received November 1972. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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