80-CF-8811-12_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: Star-Gazer – Ensign Madeline Burke as she gets acquainted with her octant, the aerial cousin of the maritime sextant.  Photograph released by Seventh Naval District, August 1943.  U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (2015/11/24).
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/127906254@N06">National Museum of the U.S. Navy</a>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/22674649853/">80-CF-8811-12_Box 175</a>