United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Janet Muriel Mead Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0389
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters written by Mead to her parents throughout her military career, as well as during the mid-1950s. Photographs in the collection include images of Meade, her friends in the WAVES and U.S. Navy, and Naval Air Station Seattle.
Dates:
1940-1955
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
Jane Pritchard Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0424
Scope and Contents
The contents of this collection contains three letters from 1945 from Pritchard's friend Private First Class Susan Peters, who was stationed in Florence, Italy as a member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). These letters describe the places around the world that Peters travelled to, and her fellow WACs. There is also one photograph of an unnamed woman - presumably Jane Pritchard - in a naval uniform.
Dates:
1945; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2008
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- Women in war 2
- Women veterans 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Nisbet, Judith Bullock -- Interviews 1
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Interviews 1
- United States. Army--Women 1
- United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve -- Interviews 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
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