File:Capt. Mary Converse teaches U.S. Navy ensign candidates to use sextant, etc., 1941, USLOC.jpg

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English: Capt. Mary Parker Converse, the first woman ever commissioned by the U.S. Merchant Marine, teaches V-7 personnel (candidates for U.S. Navy ensign commission) how to use a compass, gyroscope and sextant in 1941.
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Source U.S. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection, 1941 (U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).
Author U.S. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information, 1941 (public domain).

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