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80-G-44395: National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, January 1944

80-G-44395: National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, January 1944. First hospital corps school for the Navy’s Women’s Reserve at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, opened 12 January 1944, with 240 enlisted women reporting. The curriculum will be under direction of members of the Navy Nurses Corps. Shown: Captain John Harper, MC, USN, Commanding Officer of the Hospital reading orders giving him command. Shown (left to right): Commander Warren G. Wieand, MC, USN, Executive Officer of the School; Captain Mildred H. McAfee, USNR, Director of the WAVES; Rear Admiral Charles W.O. Bunker, MC, USN, Commanding Officer of the National Naval Medical Center; Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, MC, USN, Surgeon General of the United States Navy, and Captain Sue S. Dauser, NC, USN, Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps, January 12, 1944. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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Caption: 80-G-44395: National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, January 1944. First hospital corps school for the Navy’s Women’s Reserve at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, opened 12 January 1944, with 240 enlisted women reporting. The curriculum will be under direction of members of the Navy Nurses Corps. Shown: Captain John Harper, MC, USN, Commanding Officer of the Hospital reading orders giving him command. Shown (left to right): Commander Warren G. Wieand, MC, USN, Executive Officer of the School; Captain Mildred H. McAfee, USNR, Director of the WAVES; Rear Admiral Charles W.O. Bunker, MC, USN, Commanding Officer of the National Naval Medical Center; Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, MC, USN, Surgeon General of the United States Navy, and Captain Sue S. Dauser, NC, USN, Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps, January 12, 1944. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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