Joy Bright Hancock
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Joy Bright Hancock, a veteran of both the First and Second World Wars, was one of the first women officers of the United States Navy.
LCDR Joy Bright Hancock, c.1943
Joy Bright Hancock, February 1918
Captain Joy Bright Hancock, USN; portrait by David Komuro, c. 1953.
Yeoman (F)
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Yeoman was an enlisted rating for women in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War I. The first Yeoman was Loretta Perfectus Walsh. At the time, the women were popularly referred to as "yeomanettes" o
Joy Bright Hancock
…Wildwood, New Jersey on 4 May 1898. During World War I, after attending business school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she enlisted in the Navy as a Yeoman (F), serving at Camden, New Jersey and at Naval Air Station Wildwood. Following the war, she married Lieutenant Charles Gray Little, who was killed in the…
A 1917 recruitment poster illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy
Yeomen (F) being inspected by Rear Admiral Victor Blue (left center), Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, on the Washington Monument grounds, Washington, D.C., in 1918
Yeomen (F) attached to the Industrial Department, U.S. Naval Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, during World War I