Skip to main content
Please check our Hours of Operation page before planning your visit. Click on red bar for more information.
[X]

80-G-150865: WAVES Naval Officers, September 1943

80-G-150865: WAVES Naval Officers, September 1943. Lieutenant Junior Grade Joy Bright Hancock, USNR, and Lieutenant Junior Grade Eunice Whyte, USNR, are the only WAVES entitled to wear the Victory Medal of World War I. Both are assigned to duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. They served as Yeomanettes in the last war. Released September 16, 1943. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Download Image:
Low (PNG, 319x319px, 66KB)
Med (JPEG, 1280x1280px, 182KB)
High Res (JPEG, 2220x2788px, 501KB)
Caption: 80-G-150865: WAVES Naval Officers, September 1943. Lieutenant Junior Grade Joy Bright Hancock, USNR, and Lieutenant Junior Grade Eunice Whyte, USNR, are the only WAVES entitled to wear the Victory Medal of World War I. Both are assigned to duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. They served as Yeomanettes in the last war. Released September 16, 1943. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Related Content
Topic
  • People--Women
Document Type
  • Photograph
Wars & Conflicts
  • World War II 1939-1945
Navy Communities
File Formats
  • Image (gif, jpg, tiff)
Location of Archival Materials
  • National Museum of the U.S. Navy
Author Name
Place of Event
Recipient Name