Keywords: WAVES mechanics work on SNJ plane NAAS Whiting Field c1944.jpg Two U S Navy WAVES aircraft mechanics working on a North American SNJ Texan training plane at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Whiting Field Pensacola Florida USA circa 1943-45 Note their dungaree uniforms and the plane's Pratt Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial engine Official U S Navy photograph http //www history navy mil/photos/images/k15000/k15003c htm 80-G-K-15003 now in the collections of the National Archives ca 1943-1945 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy North American SNJ Naval Air Station Whiting Field World War II color photographs of the US Homefront Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service Pratt Whitney R-1340 |