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Blanche H. Gwyn (d. 2008) of Mount Airy, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from July 1944 until April 1946 and in the Naval Reserve for twenty-three years. Gwyn grew up in Mount Airy, North Carolina and graduated from Mount Airy High School. She earned a bachelor of science degree in secretarial administration from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1936. She worked as a secretary in Mount Airy, but in 1939, she took a job with the Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport, Tennessee. In July 1944, Gwyn took military leave from her job to join the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). She attended two months of Naval [...] Read more
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