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| Portrait of Colonel Oveta Hobby, circa 1942 | Portrait of Women's Army Corps director Oveta Hobby, circa 1942 | Major General Myron Cramer swearing in Oveta Hobby as the director of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, witnessed by General George Marshall and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Washington DC, United States, 16 May 1942 | Colonel Oveta Hobby (right) speaking with Auxiliary Margaret Peterson and Captain Elizabeth Gilbert at Mitchel Field, New York, United States, 1943 |
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| Colonel Oveta Hobby at her desk, 1940s | Portrait of Colonel Oveta Hobby, circa 1944 | Portrait of US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Hobby, circa 1953 |
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