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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Ellen L. Scott Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0380
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of seven letters written to her parents in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the letters, Scott discusses military life at the various bases at which she was assigned as well as her job responsibilities. The last letter indicates that she had left the WAC and was living in Gadsden, Alabama with her husband Bill who was serving in the Army Air Force.

Dates: 1943-1945

Clara Fredere Sullivan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0450
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an album of photographs taken during Clara's time in the Army Nurse Corps, a copy of handwritten reminiscences, a copy of her certificate of identity from the War Department, and a medical kit.

Dates: 1918-1919

Molly Thavenet Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0429
Scope and Contents The scrapbook contains correspondence, ephemera, photographs, newsletters, official military communications and records, and clippings primarily related to Thavenet's service in the WAAC and WAC, primarily with the Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1945.The correspondence is from Thavenet to her family describing her experiences in the service. There are also letters to Thavenet from family and friends from home and fellow WACs, as well as post-war correspondence up to 1950. Included...
Dates: 1940-1950

Lorna W. Thigpen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0004
Content Description

The collection includes a certificate, 4 December 1945; a photograph of Thigpen, undated; various letters of correspondence, May 1944-August 1945.

Dates: circa 1944 - 1945

Shirley M. Tillson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0302
Scope and Contents Letters, chiefly from Port Blakely, Washington, document Tillson's daily life with the WAVES. Subjects include her dates and social activities, particularly the USO (United Service Organization), a Women's Service Club, dances, and athletics; her family; the status of the war, including the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the German surrender; WAVES uniforms and uniform regulations; and her work as a radio operator. Tillson writes in detail about the opportunities the navy provides and about...
Dates: 1945

Katharine W. Toll Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0293
Abstract

Katharine Wolcott Toll of Amherst, Massachusetts, was a journalist. She served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.

The Katharine W. Toll Papers span from 1929 to the 1980s and primarily documents Katharine Toll's service in the WAVES during World War II.

Dates: circa 1929-1989 and undated

Jennie Trueman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0308
Scope and Contents

The collection contains hymn books for the Women's Auxiliary Forces, a journal, a commemorative photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, a hat device, and a medal.

Dates: 1944

United States Enlisted Woman's World War I Service Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0344
Abstract

This photograph album contains pictures predominately of one United States enlisted woman during World War I as she travels through France. There are photographs of other enlisted members as well as a captioned photograph of a ship which they likely traveled on to Scotland.

Dates: 1917-1918; Other: Date acquired: 2010

Winona Franklin Walker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0284
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 July 2003; 3 scrapbooks that contain a number of photographs, postcards, travel brochures, and correspondence. Locations visited by Walker in her scrapbooks include: Bremen, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland.

Dates: 1945-1964, 2003; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1965

Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0523
Abstract

Irma Jackson Cayton Wertz (1911-2007) of Detroit, Michigan, served as an officer in African American units of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and later the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945.

The collection is made up of nine photographs and one letter from Wertz to her mother.

Dates: 1942-1945; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/2007

Aileen D. White Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0301
Abstract

Aileen D. White served in the Army Nurse Corps in Italy during World War II.

Thirteen V-Mail letters from Lt. Aileen D. White of the Army Nurse Corps to her sister in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Dated from January 1944 to March 1944, the letters briefly describe living conditions and entertainment in an unknown location in Italy where White was stationed with the 17th General Hospital.

Dates: 1944

Sherley Mae White Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0485
Abstract

Sherley Mae White (1923-2014) served in the Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard (SPARS) from 1943-1945. She served as a drum major for the SPARS marching band at the Biltmore Training Station in Palm Beach, Florida. She later transferred to the Coast Guard Base in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Dates: 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2010

Lauretta Webster Wilkin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0307
Scope and Contents Letters to her family in West Covington, Kentucky, and several photographs document Lauretta Webster Wilkin's service in the WAAC and WAC during World War II. Subjects include basic training; WAAC parades; uniforms and equipment; her work in the army's drafting department; the transition from the WAAC to the WAC in 1943; war news; family affairs; and social life and recreation, including her softball team, parties, visits with friends, and her courtship and marriage to George Wilkin....
Dates: 1943-1946

Virgilia Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0345
Abstract

Virgilia "Jill" Williams (1914-2003) of Grandview, Iowa, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) as a pharmacist's mate third class at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, and an instructor of pharmacist's mates at the U.S. Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York, during World War II.

The collection contains correspondence, military papers, photographs, postcards, publications, and a scrapbook kept by Williams.

Dates: 1942-1945