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The Salute!

December 19, 2014

tags: 1940s, African American, Smith College, WAVES, women's history, WW2

A salute between the only two African American WAVE officers during World War II: Lt. Harriet Ida Pickens (left) and Lt. Frances Wills (right).

The December 1944 photograph comes from the National Archives.

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