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NH 97533 WAVES at "Mail Call"

Photo #: NH 97533 WAVES at "Mail Call"
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Title: WAVES at "Mail Call"
Description: Photo #: NH 97533 WAVES at Mail Call In the Navy there's no call like Mail Call regardless of whether you are a sailor at sea or a WAVE based at some shore station. WAVES gather around for this daily high spot. WAVES, incidently, do about 80 percent of the work involved in the administration and supervision of the Navy mail service for the entire fleet and the Navy's extra-continental activities. Quoted from the original caption released with this photograph effective 21 July 1945, in connection with the WAVES third anniversary. See Photo # NH 97533 (extended caption) for the photo's introductory text, concerning the state of the Women's Reserve three years after it was established. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 97533
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