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Reading lesbian subtext in everything since World War I.

Arrives at ACORN Training Detachment, Port Hueneme, California, with a wardrobe and no place to stow it, 15 October 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

A WAVE ensign times the sights for the ship's Navigating Officer, as he shoots the sun with his sextant, 25 June 1945. She is a passenger on the ship, en route to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and is making her first voyage on a Naval vessel. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

WWII WAVES Recruiting Poster: "What Pay Does a Navy WAVE Get? Your Navy needs you in the WAVES". This poster from 1944 measured 20"H X 13"W, and features a chart showing monthly pay and allowances for each rank against a background photo of WAVES marching in formation. Photo size: 886 × 1280 P

US Navy nurse Lieutenant (jg) Madge Overstreet and a C-47 Skytrain at Yontan Airfield, China, 1945 | World War II Database (US government photo)

[Photo] US Navy sailor helping a WAVES trainee pilot putting on her oxygen mask, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 15 Oct 1943 | World War II Database

Sorts airmail letters going to units of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, at Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California, 13 June 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.color

[Photo] Cartoon by Sixta depicting events and activities in the first year following the 30 Jul 1942 authorization of the US Navy WAVES program | World War II Database

thanks to my buddy Oscar for finding this one ......it's a rare shot where you can see the first run of the N1 alongside the first blue deck jacket the "zipped one" .

[Photo] WAVES officers posing on the navigation bridge of USS General Omar Bundy with Captain Lawrence Wainwright while en route to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 25 Jun 1945 | World War II Database

USS Missouri's Gunner Mate 2nd class Charles J. Hansen working on a 40mm quad machine gun mount during the battleship's shakedown period August 1944. WW2 Navy color photos

Royal Navy officer takes a bearing with the sextant. He wears the classic Montgomery duffle coat. The Montgomery took its name from the manufacturing company chosen by the Admiralty in the late 1890s to provide crews with a heavy all-weather coat.

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On 28 May 1980 Midshipman Elizabeth Ann (Belzer) Rowe (shown here) became the first of 55 women to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, the first in the Academy’s long history. Photo from the 1980...

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Lot-741-16: U.S. Coast Guard, WWII. SPARS In Training. Brightening the stern of a “Jeep of the Deep” are the smiles of these two SPAR cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut. Going for a trip aboard an 83-foot Coast Guard patrol craft is part of the indoctrination course given future SPAR officers. The SPARS, from left to right, are Helen D. Darland and Leila Leverett. U.S. Coast Guard Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photographed through Mylar sleeve…