
Sunday morning breakfast for the WAVES at Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. seventy years ago today, January 10, 1943. WAVE commander Mildred McAfee greets a group of WAVES working in Washington.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
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Sunday morning breakfast for the WAVES at Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. seventy years ago today, January 10, 1943. WAVE commander Mildred McAfee greets a group of WAVES working in Washington.
The photo comes from the National Archives.
The last edition of the WAVES newsletter was published in May of 1946. The WAVE is Lottie Coltoniak of Rochester, New York, on dduty in Washington, DC.
It comes from The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.