#phyllis mae dailey

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“Cmdr. Thomas A. Gaylord, USN (Ret’d), administers oath to five new Navy nurses commissioned in New York…” March 8, 1945.

From the series: General Photographic File of the Department of Navy, 1943 - 1958

Phyllis Mae Dailey, the Navy’s first African-American nurse, is second from the right.