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A Lady of the Navy

Portrait of a WAVE
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Description: Painting, Watercolor on Paper; by Howard Baer; C. 1943; Framed Dimensions 14H X 13W
Accession #: 88-159-AA as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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They don't shoot guns, but members of the WAVES--enlisted personnel and officers alike--have won the admiration of the Navy and are playing an important and vital part in winning the war. Keen, alert, cheerful, the Navy's WAVES are capable "seamen" and sailors. This is a typical example.

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