Records, 1920-1986.

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Records, 1920-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53896327

This collection holds records of the National Yeomen (F) veterans' organization. Founded in 1926 and disestablished on 31 December 1985, the group's members were Yeomen (F) in World War I. The collection includes, legal documents, printed material, guest books, and documents relating to the Loretta Walsh Memorial.

0.8 cubic ft.

Operational Archive Branch, Naval History Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7672636

Operational Archive Branch, Naval History Center

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Walsh, Loretta Perfectus, 1896-1925

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Loretta Perfectus Walsh Bowman (April 22, 1896 – August 17, 1925), sometimes signed and written as "Loretto", became the first American active-duty Navy woman, the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Navy, and the first woman allowed to serve as a woman in any of the United States armed forces, as anything other than as a nurse, when she enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917. Walsh subsequently became the first woman U.S. Navy petty officer when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on M...

National Yeomen (F)

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...