Photo #: NH 97517
U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
"WAVE recruits in the hospital training school ... enjoy
a joke with one of the hospital's pharmacist's mates, Patrick
La Rosa, engaged in one of the frequent, if not favorite, Navy
pastimes -- 'swabbing the deck'. From left to right are WAVES
Jean Rindall ...; Naomi Edwards ...; Charlotte Kofoid ...; Nancy
Crane ...; Carol Peterson ...; Geneva Dudley ...; and Jean Aldo
..."
Quoted from the original caption released with this photograph
effective 18 July 1945.
Note: Pharmacist's Mate striker badges on the WAVES' sleeves;
poster adminishing "Don't ever call it a boat! Unless you
can hoist it aboard a ship"
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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