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WWII: Women in the Fight

A WAVE Takes Target Practice

A WAVE Takes Target Practice

The 90,000 members of the U.S. Navy's WAVES (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) would serve only on the home front, but they would still get marksmanship training.

Photo: Thomas D. McAvoy./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Oct 01, 1943
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