United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Judith Bullock Nisbet Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0056
Scope and Contents
Judith Bullock Nisbet was born in Red Springs, North Carolina, and served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Emergency Services-Navy) from 1942 to 1943. An oral history interview, memoir, photographs and textiles primarily document Nisbet's service during World War II. The oral history interview provides information about Nisbet's childhood in Red Springs, N.C., during the Depression, her education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, and her service as a WAVE. Prominent...
Dates:
1942-1999
Lillian M. Pimlott Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0219
Abstract
Lillian Mary Pimlott, a Trenton, New Jersey native, joined the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in March 1943 as an ensign and retired years later as a lieutenant commander in the navy.Correspondence, military papers, photographs, and printed material primarily document Lillian Pimlott's 1943-1946 service in the WAVES and her continued military service in the naval reserves. Letters to family and friends describe Pimlott's 1937 travels to England,...
Dates:
1937-1968
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- Subject: United States -- Armed Forces -- Women X
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- Hawaii -- Description and travel 1
- Nisbet, Judith Bullock -- Interviews 1
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) 1
- Philippines -- Social conditions 1
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Women 1
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Interviews 1
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve -- Interviews 1
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve -- Photographs 1
- United States. Navy -- History 1
- United States. Navy -- Women 1
- United States. Navy--Women 1
- Woman's College of the University of North Carolina -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Woman's College of the University of North Carolina -- Alumni and alumnae -- Interviews 1
- Women sailors -- United States -- Interviews 1
- Women veterans -- United States -- Interviews 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs 1 + ∧ less
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