1.
Walker and the other women in this photograph (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, U.S. Navy) wear the enlisted gray pinstriped working uniform, and the regul[...]
1944 | Image | Willa Walker Bean Collection |
2.
This is a candid shot; women in the photograph are wearing the regulation pinstriped gray working uniform, Lisle stockings, oxford work shoes, blue cover hat, and matchin[...]
1945 | Image | Willa Walker Bean Collection |
3.
The women in the photograph wear a combination of WAVES [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, U.S. Navy] clothing that is outside of standard regulation. They [...]
1945 | Image | Willa Walker Bean Collection |
4.
Willa Bean wears the navy blue service and dress uniform and black oxford shoes. The patch located on her right arm, mid-shoulder, indicates the rank of third class petty[...]
1945 | Image | Willa Walker Bean Collection |
5.
In this photo likely members of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, U.S. Navy) Company 68-44 Battalion Two, U.S. Navy, are marching on the parade groun[...]
1944 | Image | Willa Walker Bean Collection |
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Written on the front page of this photograph is "Company Battalion 2, U.S.N. [Navy] Hospital Corps School (Women's Reserve), Bethesda, Maryland." The women standing in fo[...]
1944 | Image | Willa Walker Bean Collection |
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Willa Walker wears the postwar blue outdoor uniform. On her lapel is the standard Navy Nurse Corps Insignia. She appears to have on a WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer [...]
1944 | Image | Willa Walker Bean Collection |