This week’s image comes from the nearly 100+ on display as part of the “WAVES: Women in the WW2 US Navy” article at ww2db.com. Many of the images are of women at work, and there is a kind of casual “oh hey…taking my picture, huh?!” vibe at work. But there are others that are much more orchestrated, and are meant to show these women as important contributors to the war effort. Many are in color, and are staged quite artfully (and some with a little sex appeal). Check out the whole WAVES set.
So according to the caption, this is Parachute Rigger 3rd Class Myra Jean Clark, who is standing in front of a very interesting set of recruitment posters. I have many of them from my travels on the internet, but have never seem them blown up like they are here, with heavy emphasis on WAVE recruitment and other US Navy themes. I very much like the one in the middle (near the top) with the man in the bow tie showing a picture of this daughter (presumably). I’ve never seen this one.
This has been another entry in the ww2db.com Featured Image partnership. The idea behind this post (and the weekly posts to come) is to highlight ww2db.com’s collection of 3500 plus photos, many culled from the National Archives, Library of Congress, the US Naval Historical Center, and other research institutions.
Source: http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=4290
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