80-CF-8811-11 Box 175 (22933885019)

80-CF-8811-11_Box 175: WAVES Study Aerial Navigation. Nine members of the U.S. Navy Women’s Reserve become pathfinders for others as they take up the study of aerial navigation at the Naval Air Navigation School in Hollywood Beach, Miami, Florida. The girls will take the same intensive course as the “mere males” in the school and on conclusion of the training period be assigned to the duty of teaching others the mysteries of the rapidly developing science. Shown: Mysteries Explained. Lieutenant L.C. Read brings out the Air Computer, a stream-lined form of slide rule, to get the future aerial navigators started on an understanding of their courses. Listening are (left to right) Ensigns Virginia Wishington; Laura Walker; Madeline Burke; Helen Feleki; Kathlene Krebs; Elizabeth Whitten; and Martha Barnes. Photograph released by Seventh Naval District, August 1943. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (2015/11/24).