- Collection:
- Personnel
- Title:
- Photograph, Link Instrument Training School, Class of February 1943
- Creator:
- McLemore, Cordelia
- Publisher:
- Hapeville, Ga. : Fulton County Schools Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1943
- Subject:
- Georgia--Fulton County
World War II
United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve
Naval Air Station Atlanta (Ga.)
Counselor educators - People:
- McLemore, Cordelia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The Women Accepted for Volunteer Service (WAVES) was a branch of the US Navy created during World War II. This image is of the first Link Instrument Training Class to be assigned to Naval Air Station Atlanta. It was donated by Cordelia McLemore, a former teacher and guidance counselor of the Fulton County School System. McLemore enlisted in the WAVES when the group first formed. Her military career began in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she graduated from Officer Candidate School. She then served at several posts, working her way up from instructor to administrator of pilot training. After the war, she taught at Milton and North Springs High Schools before becoming guidance counselor at Ridgeview until she retired in 1980. While these women would serve at Naval Air Station Atlanta, that facility was still under construction at the time this photograph was taken. Instead, they were photographed in the Fox Theater's Egyptian Ballroom, where early simulator training took place.
- Metadata URL:
- https://fcsarchives.omeka.net/items/show/231
- Holding Institution:
- Fulton County Schools Archive
- Rights:
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