Keywords: outdoor monochrome 80-G-100194: Operations at the Navy Ordnance Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia, July 21, 1943. Members of Women Ordnance Workers Service – better known as “WOWS” do most of the maintenance work on Dahlgren Proving Ground. These women are cleaning and greasing 20mm cannon, but their duties also include the firing of the weapons. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/12/13). 80-G-100194: Operations at the Navy Ordnance Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia, July 21, 1943. Members of Women Ordnance Workers Service – better known as “WOWS” do most of the maintenance work on Dahlgren Proving Ground. These women are cleaning and greasing 20mm cannon, but their duties also include the firing of the weapons. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/12/13). |