National Museum of the U.S. Navy

This section focuses on women who served in the Regular Navy and in the Navy Nurse Corps during the Korean War and the 1950s. 

Other Resources:

NMUSN Women in the U.S. Navy Pamphlet

NHHC Women in the U.S. Navy Focus

Image:  80-G-708760:   U.S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland, July 1952.   WAVES in training.  Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.