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Helen Doyle Black (1918-2016) was in the first group of women to enlist in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II. Helen Doyle Black was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, on 2 May 1918. She graduated from Nashua High School in 1936 and attended Middlebury College, where she majored in French. After graduating in 1940, she taught French and English in Andover, New Hampshire. Black enlisted in the United States Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) in 1942. In October 1942 she went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, for training and then was stationed in Boston, where she worked in communications in the port director's office. In summer of 1945 she went to Washington, D.C. for education [...] Read more
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