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USN 709021: WAVES and friends on liberty, October 1953

USN 709021: WAVES and friends on liberty, October 1953. Posed on the spacious gardens of the Caribe Hilton Hotel while reading the booklet “Que Pasa” (What’s Happening in Puerto Rico), the two couples pause to decide on other points of interest they would be able to see during the afternoon. Left to right: Baker, Myers, LaFreniere, and Paluzzi. Master Caption: Navy Accepts Women Volunteers for Duty on the High Seas. For the first time in history, the U.S. Navy has accepted volunteers for duty on the high seas from women in the enlisted WAVES. Those eligible were WAVES of the Hospital Corps to fill sixty-three billets on ships of the Military Sea Transportation Service. Photograph released October 26, 1953. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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Caption: USN 709021: WAVES and friends on liberty, October 1953. Posed on the spacious gardens of the Caribe Hilton Hotel while reading the booklet “Que Pasa” (What’s Happening in Puerto Rico), the two couples pause to decide on other points of interest they would be able to see during the afternoon. Left to right: Baker, Myers, LaFreniere, and Paluzzi. Master Caption: Navy Accepts Women Volunteers for Duty on the High Seas. For the first time in history, the U.S. Navy has accepted volunteers for duty on the high seas from women in the enlisted WAVES. Those eligible were WAVES of the Hospital Corps to fill sixty-three billets on ships of the Military Sea Transportation Service. Photograph released October 26, 1953. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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