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03. Women Veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: 03

Found in 728 Collections and/or Records:

Pamela Devine Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0453
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 March 2009.

Dates: 2009 March 11

Mary Jane DeWan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0027
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 28 January 1999; various photographs of DeWan’s service with the Army Nurse Corps, 1943-1945; a newspaper clipping titled “Wedding Told” announcing her wedding, 4 December 1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

F. Dewitt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0245
Content Description

In the diary, Dewitt discusses training and preparations for her departure to Casablanca; her voyage sailing overseas on the ship the Louis Pasteur; living conditions in Casablanca and the Mateur Airfield in Tunisia; her experiences in the military hospitals there; her interactions with German and Italian prisoners of war; and her social activities.

Dates: 1943 April-1944 January

Mary C. Dickson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0465
Scope and Contents This collection contains paperwork detailing standard regulations of the United States Marines Women's Reserve (USMCWR), personal and official correspondence, newsletters, song lyrics, personnel sheets, an ID card, a bumper sticker, and a photograph. The personal letters written by Dickson to her family talk about her travel experiences and life in the Marines; however most of the collection consists of official correspondence. There is one photograph of her sitting at her desk with her...
Dates: 1943-1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/00/2009

Edna L. Snow Morris Dillman Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0652
Scope and Contents

This collections has 65 letters that begin in June 1943-September 1944.

Dates: 1943 June 06-1944 September 23

Ellen Mercer Diming Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0229
Content Description

The collection includes a photograph of Diming in her WAVES overcoat and biographical information recorded during her oral history interview, handwritten.

Dates: circa 1944-1946

Gladys L. Dimmick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0055
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 March 1999; Navy WAVES uniform jacket and skirt; 3 Navy WAVES hats and a pair of gloves; a black leather WAVES shoulder bag; 3 medals for Dimmick’s service; 7 photographs of Dimmick’s service with the Navy WAVES and during retirement, 1943-1997.

Dates: 1943-1999

Rosemarie Dodd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0020
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 January 1999; 2 photographs of Dodd and her regiment, 1944; magazine copy of All Hands publication, July 1972; newspaper clipping from High Point Enterprise publication, November 1998.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Carolyn F. Dominik Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0531
Abstract

Carolyn F. Dominik (b. 1950),of Queens, New York served in the United States Air Force Nurse Corps from 1973 to 1993. She retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

The collection includes a 2012 April oral history transcript.

Dates: 2012 April 13

Bernadine "Bernie" Donato Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0594
Content Description

This collection includes October 2015 oral history transcript; copies of photographs and documents; flight jump suit uniform.

Dates: circa 1975-2015

Louise Nash Dorsett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0017
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 January 1999; a copy of document from Navy's Bureau of Ships, April 1946; various photographs of Dorsett's service with the Navy WAVES, 1943-1945; a Navy WAVES uniform.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1946

Daphine Doster Mastroianni Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0038
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 February 1999; newspaper clippings; copies of correspondence; "L.O.D. Yes: An Odyssey of the Army's 18th General Hospital" book; military papers; newsletters; programs/mixed materials; photographs.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Nadine Dotts Doucet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0288
Scope and Contents

WAVES uniform items worn by Nadine Doucet during World War II. Items include blue and white dress uniforms, shirts, and several hats and ties.

Dates: circa 1940-1949

Jean Downer Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0386
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 February 2007.

Dates: 2007 February 21

Evelyn Louise Hux Drogos Uniform

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0484
Content Description

This collection includes a World War II era Navy Nurse Corps blue service uniform and white service hat; large brass and metal eagle insignia pin; five ribbon pins ("Victory Loan", blue star, "5th").

Dates: circa 1945-1946

Mary Gage Dunham Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0143
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 January 2000.

Dates: 2000 January 16

Marilyn Roberts (Bobbi) Earp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0174
Content Description

The collection includes a 2000 June oral history transcript; Newspaper article photocopy from Whiteville, NC, 1989; portrait photograph of Marilyn in her Navy WAVES uniform; photographs of Marilyn and her husband during their service, 1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1949

Maxine Virginia Easter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0108
Content Description The collection includes a 1999 October oral history, names tags, ribbons, and insignia from service in the Navy as Chief Nurse from tour in Philippines, and a bronze dish with the Army Nurse Corps branch insignia in Artifact Box 1; Oversize Box stores Raleigh News and Observer 1945 August 15 article announcing Japanese surrender; local newspaper clippings from 1963 to 1980 highlighting Easter's career with the Navy Nurse Corps in Port Hueneme, CA, and photographs from nursing career...
Dates: circa 1942-1970

Thelma Eaton Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0650
Content Description

Scrapbook documents Eaton's service in the Air WAC during World War II. The scrapbook includes photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, id card, personal narrative, transcribed newspaper excerpt, and uniform patch.

Dates: circa 1940s

Jacqueline Marion Edmunds Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0541
Abstract

Jacqueline Marion Edmunds (b. 1951), of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy from 1979-2000.

The collection includes an oral history transcript and various photographs.

Dates: 1979-2000

Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0177
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various military papers from Edwards Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various photographs of Edwards Army Special Services work, 1943-1945.

Dates: 1943-2000

Mary Williams Elder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0029
Scope and Contents

The collection includes various correspondence among Women’s Army Corps veterans for stories to create a book, June 1992; brief biography on Elder’s military service, undated; various newspaper publications, including newsletters for Women's Army Corps, 1992-1998; an oral history transcript, 2 February 1999; various photographs of Elder, 1942-1994; postcards from the Norwich Central Public Library, circa 1960s.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Blossom Ellis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0382
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2007; photographs of Blossom in United States Air Force Nurse uniform, circa 1953-1954; official discharge paperwork, 1962.

Dates: 1954-2007

Amy Epley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0663
Content Description

The collection includes: an oral history transcript, October 2019; 2 medals for running; a tee shirt.

Dates: 1992-2000

Jane Heins Escher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0080
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; various photographs of Escher’s WAVES service, 1951-1953; 9 photocopies of graduation ceremony scrapbook; a Naval Training Center publication, 1941.

Dates: circa 1941-1999

Helen Bonner Eshelman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0039
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 February 1999; an I.D. card for Adjutant General's Office, June 1943; various military records, restricted, various certificates from Eshelman's service as 2nd Lieutenant and Dietician, December 1942-January 1946; a Women's Memorial card, February 1999; various newspaper clippings about Eshelman's military service, undated; WVPH General Oversized box 2 contains battle map of the Pacific, 1941-1945.

Dates: circa 1941-1999

Isabella Peterson Evans Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0173
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 June 2000; a photograph of Evans Women's Army Corps service, 1945.

Dates: circa 1945-2000

Evelyn M. Bailey Collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: WV 0455

Alice Park Fairbrother Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0409
Content Description

Alice Park Fairbrother of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a physical therapist in the United States Army Medical Specialist Corps from 1965 till 1968.

This Collection includes 1 April 2008 oral history transcript; United States Army Physical Therapy Class # 1, August 1966; photograph of plaque with "Outstanding Graduate 2LT Alice H. Park Physical Therapy Course Medical Field Service School 1966" on the inscription plate.

Dates: 1966-2008

Janice A. Farringer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0572
Content Description

This collection includes November 2014 oral history transcript; a copy of a circa 1978-1979 Women's Symposium Package Report, and CD-R of 2006 Dec Women in The Army Interview.

Dates: circa 1977-2014

M. Jean Moore Fasse Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0390
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 March 2007; scans of photographs; copy of 1958 memoir "My trip behind the Iron Curtain"; copy of American Red Cross Overseas Service Certificate, 1946. The majority of this collection is digital materials.

Dates: 1946, 1958, 2007

Andree Fifield Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0070
Content Description

The collection includes various military papers from Fifield’s WAVES service, 1943-1945; various photographs of her service and wedding, 1944-1945; an oral history transcript, 26 April 1999.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Lois Betlach Filewood Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0613
Scope and Contents

Uniforms, artifacts, books, publications, scrapbooks.

Dates: Other: 1943-1992

Filomena "Fay" Langone Helme Collection

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: WV 0726

Carolyn Newby Finger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0057
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 March 1999; various photographs of Finger's Navy WAVES service, 1942-1944; a book, USS Tulagi (GVE-72), 1943-1946; cartoon print; various WAVES song sheets, undated; a company newsletter from Vick's Chemical Company, Vol. VI, No. 1, 1 July 1943; a cap device; 10 military patches; a plain gold ensign collar device; cap device on blue wool; a small plastic box containing label for Edward Legum Furniture Co.; a Navy wool cap.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1942-1999

Marcelle Fischer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0253
Scope and Contents The Marcelle Fischer Papers primarily consists of correspondence, printed materials, photographs and artifacts, most of which date from or pertain to Fischer's service in the WAAC and WAAC during World War II. Correspondence from Fischer includes discussion of her duties teaching office work to male soldiers and general WAC life, such as barracks life, dating, social outings, her feelings regarding her contribution to the war effort, and her desire for advancement in the WAC. The...
Dates: 1935-1990

Audrey Ann Fisher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0153
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Fisher's time in the Army, 1973-1974; a copy of a Times Herald article, 1974; handwritten speech for Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony, November 2013.

Dates: circa 1973-2013

Francine Ann Fisher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0539
Abstract

Francine Fisher (b. 1951), of Washington, D.C., served in the United States National Guard and the United States Army from 1977 to 1983. She was enlisted in the United States Army Reserves until 1987.

The collection includes an oral history transcript and various photographs.

Dates: 1977-1987

Marion Fisher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0083
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 May 1999; various photographs of Fisher during her Army Medical Specialist Corps service, 1942-1944.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Paula Flores Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0625
Abstract

Paula G. Flores (b.1968), of New York, served in the United States Air Force from 1988-2008.

Dates: 1988-2008; Other: Majority of material found within 1988-2002; Other: Date acquired: 09/26/2016

WAC Veterans Association Florida Sunshine Chapter #79 Records

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0194
Content Description

This collection includes brochures; newsletters; rosters; newspaper clippings; correspondence; notes; lists and meeting records 1988-1993; scrapbooks 1987, 1988, and 1989 and photographs 1987,1992-94.

Dates: 1987-1994

Mary Cooper Floyd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0048
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 March 1999; newspaper article from the "610 Project: The Special Devices Association," circa 1946.

Dates: circa 1946-1999