Ship Ahoy!

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Lt. Cmdr. Mildred H. McAfee, USNR, Director of the Women’s Reserve, is at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry dock for the christening of the USS Franklin in October 1943. She’s receiving a gift for her participation.

The photo comes from the National Archives.

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