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Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Harriet Ida Pickens (left) and Ensign Frances Wills
Photographed after graduation from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School (WR) at Northampton, Massachusetts, in December 1944.
They were members of the school's final class, and were the Navy's first African-American "WAVES" officers.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives
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Lieutenant Junior Grade Susan Ahn Cuddy, USN
In 1942, like many Korean Americans, the three Ahn siblings, Ralph, Philip, and Susan, children from California's first Korean immigrant family, enlisted in the U.S. military. The Ahn sister, Susan Ahn Cuddy, was the first Korean American woman in the U.S. military and the first female Navy gunnery officer. For her service in the WAVES, she reached the rank of Lieutenant.U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. |
Yeoman First Class (F) Joy Bright, USNRF
Photographed in February 1918, while serving tn the Office of the Naval Superintendent of Construction, New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.
Courtesy of Captain Joy Bright Hancock, USN (Retired).
NHHC Collection
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