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10 Week Course

July 8, 2014
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WAVES learned all sorts of things during the 10-week course in celestial navigation, which began in 1944. Here, Waneta Miller learns how to handle a sextant, an arced device used to measure distances between objects and altitude in navigation.

The photo comes from the National Archives.

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