Photo #: NH 97514
"'Celestial pathfinders'"
"For other WAVES to follow, 70 WAVE specialists are now
taking a 10-weeks course at Navy Link Celestial Navigation schools
at two widely-separated Naval Air Stations -- Quonset Point,
R.I., and Seattle, Wash. Those pictured are at NAS Seattle."
"Students rotate duties as they take practice 'flights'
in Celestial Trainers. Here are (left to right), Irene Aide,
... navigator; Linnea Peterson, ... instructor; Jane Hall, ...
radio operator; and Elinor Johnson, ... pilot. All are Specialists
(Teachers)."
Quoted from the original caption released with this photograph
on 23 July 1944.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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