1st US NAVY WOMEN JOY BRIGHT HANCOCK lost SPOUSE AIRSHIP CRASH ZR1,ZR2 AUTOGRAPH

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ORIGINAL - 1st U.S. NAVY WOMEN OFFICER CAPTAIN " JOY BRIGHT HANCOCK " lost her HUSBAND'S IN AIRSHIP CRASH ZR1 and ZR2 AUTOGRAPH
RARE AUTOGRAPHED TYPED NOTE BY " *
JOY BRIGHT HANCOCK Capt. U.S.N. Ret. "
* Joy Bright Hancock (b.1898 – d.1986)
,
a veteran of both WW1 and WW2
was
one of the first women officers of the United States Navy
.
She directed the WAVES,
which during the war and briefly afterward grew to 500 officers, 50 warrant officers, and 6,000 enlisted women.
During World War I she enlisted in the Navy as a Yeoman, serving at Naval Air Station Wildwood.
She married
Lieutenant Charles Gray Little
, who was
killed in the crash of the airship (
ZR-2)
in 1921
.
In 1924, she married
Lieutenant Commander Lewis Hancock, Jr., who lost his life when airship USS
Shenandoah
(ZR-1) crashed in September 1925.
Joy Bright Hancock attended Foreign Service School and obtaining a private pilot's license. For more than a decade before World War II and into the first year of that conflict, she was responsible for the Bureau's public affairs activities.
On October 15, 1942, she was commissioned as a lieutenant in the newly formed Women's Reserve, commonly known as Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). She initially served as WAVES representative in the Bureau of Aeronautics and later in a similar position for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air). She was promoted to lieutenant commander on November 26, 1943 and to the rank of commander by the end of the War.
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