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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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5 March 2001