"It won't be part of her duties, but Seaman Second Class Frances Marian Jerome, ... decides it won't do her any harm to learn how to drive a towmotor during her instruction at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., where she awaits assignment to duty as a flight orderly on continental trips aboard a Naval Air Transport Service plane."
Quoted from the original caption released with this photograph on 7 December 1944. Uniform indicates that the photo was taken much earlier in the year.