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    Making WAVES: Remembering the First Women of the Hospital Corps [Image 4 of 4]

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    Making WAVES: Remembering the First Women of the Hospital Corps

    FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES

    03.17.2023

    Photo by André B. Sobocinski, Historian 

    U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

    HA1c Katherine Horton (1920-2023) enlisted in the Navy in 1944. She graduated from the WAVES Hospital Corps School in April 1945, becoming one of the first three African American women in the Hospital Corps. After the war she studied physical therapy. She passed away in January 2023 at the age of 102.

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    Date Taken: 03.17.2023
    Date Posted: 03.17.2023 15:55
    Photo ID: 7687599
    VIRIN: 230317-N-N1526-004
    Resolution: 1654x1654
    Size: 398.65 KB
    Location: FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, US

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