WV. Women military veterans
Found in 638 Collections and/or Records:
Linda R. Jones Collection
This collection includes April 2011 oral history transcript; a journal, Jan-Feb 1991; photocopies of travel authorizations; photocopy of Third United States Army's Central Region Area Orientation booklet; photocopy of a photograph of Jones in uniform; Red Cross-issued deck of cards; and Red Cross desert camouflage uniform (jacket, pants with belt, daisy mae hat,boots).
Olene Brumbles Jones Collection
The collection includes a copy of Navy discharge papers, 1945; photographs of Olene in casual clothes and uniform, circa 1943-45.
Dorothy H. Jordan Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 May 1999; various photographs of Jordan during her Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; various military papers, circa 1944; a Women's Army Corps booklet, 1984.
Ellen Jordan Collection
The collection includes a 1999 December oral history; Jordan at boot camp graduation in Camp Wolters, Texas; and various copies of photographs from Jordan's time at Camp Wolters, 1944-1945.
Florence Bevins and Phyllis Jung Collection
Anna Kalar Textiles
This collection includes one white glove, a button, and a white scarf.
Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 November 2000; a “Song and Service Book for Ship and Field: Army and Navy,” 1942; a copy of Honorable Discharge paperwork, 21 February 1946; various photographs of Kaplowitz while serving in the Women's Army Corps (WAC), circa 1945; Artifact Box includes a bag of WAC Veteran's Association souvenir buttons; bottle openers.
Catherine G. Katopes Collection
The collection includes personal correspondence, circa 1941 to 1945; newspaper clippings from Katopes friend, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1942; newspaper clipping on Katopes service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) and given to recruiting officer; 3 photographs of Katopes friends; small envelope with 16 artist renderings of locations in Coolangatta, Queensland, and Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.
Cindy Kempkes Collection
The Cindy Kempkes Papers date from 1979-2013 with the bulk from 1979. The majority of the items are photographs and U.S. military manuals. There is also an Amendment to the H.R. 1960 involving the exposure of the residents of Fort McClellan to toxic chemicals.
Marie Kevensky Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 November 1999.
Jo Anne Kilday Collection
This collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 May 2011; 5 scanned photographs that include her time as a Marine and even as a member of the Camp Lejeune Women Marines basketball team, circa 1960.
Marian "Mac" McBurney Kilgore Photograph Album
This photograph album entitled "Navy Days at Anacostia" contains photographs documenting Kilgore's service in the WAVES.
Katie S. King Collection
The collection contains a 2005 oral history transcript; photographs; military materials (facsimiles), 1944-1948; educational materials (facsimiles), 1947-1948, 1997; and religious materials (facsimiles), 1968-2005.
Shelley Whitzke Kirk Collection
Shelley Witzke Kirk (b. 1963), of Bethesda, Maryland, served in the United States Navy from 1981-2005.
The collection includes a 2016 February oral history transcript.
Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick Collection
Muriel Coykendall Kiser Collection
The collection includes a 18 May 1999 oral history transcript; 4 copies of photographs; American Red Cross blue-gray battledress wool jacket, trousers, and visor hat.
Audrey Brewington Knight Oral History
The collection includes a 5 February 2009 oral history transcript and copies of photographs.
Christine M. Knott Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 August 2010; two Chief Warrant Officer dress service hats: 1 dress blue with insignia; 1 olive drab without insignia.
Jane Fraley Kodack Collection
Jane Fraley Kodack (1947-2013), of Thomasville, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1981 to 1993. Kodack received the Army Commendation medal for rendering extraordinary medical assistance during a 1989 artillery training accident at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
The collection includes a 2009 October 1 oral history transcript and several scanned photographs.
BJ Kramer Collection
The collection includes a 22 April 2015 oral history transcript; a photograph of Kramer in uniform; 2 typed poems; military papers discussing a hospital remodel at Fort Riley and a copy of Vietnam's United States barracks; various newspaper clippings and full length issues, 1979.
Ruth C. Kropp Collection
Ruth Cambric Kropp enlisted in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service - Navy) in October 1942 and worked in communications and decoding at various installations until her discharge in November 1944.
This collection consists of five WAVES artifacts used by Ruth Kropp during her World War II service.
Marian Estelle Gold Krugman Papers
Barbara A. Kucharczyk Collection
Barbara A. Wolfe Kucharczyk of Florida served in the U.S. Air Force from 1976 to 1998.
The Kucharczyk Papers primarily date 1977 to 1998 and cincludes March 2003 and April 2019 oral history transcripts, photographs and photograph albums, military papers and records, clippings, programs, writings, yearbooks, awards, artifacts, uniform and uniform accessories, insignia, ribbons, badges, and medals, which document her career in the U.S. Air Force.
Winifred Taylor Kuehn Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; "As You Were" magazine, 1994; Navy WAVES book by Elizabeth Allen Butler, 1988; Naval Reserve Midshipman's school song sheet copy; WAVES Sing-A-Long booklet from 50th Anniversary Celebration, circa 1992; photographs of Kuehn in WAVES uniform and gathering with local WAVES group, circa 1944.
Jennie Kwiatanowski Journal
Personal Journal written in from March 23 1933- June 23 1933.
Linda Cates Lacy Collection
This collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 April 2011; histories of Women Marines in World War I and United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve Band compiled by Lacy; a scrapbook page; photographs; DVD-R audio slide show of a history of women serving in the United States Marines Corps; a CD-R of the song March of the Women Marines; 2008 Women Marines Association calendar; 2010 Women's Memorial service women calendar.
Therese M. Lambert Collection
Therese Lambert served in the United Women Army Corps from 1950 until 1953 in Germany and the United States. She later enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve.
The collection includes a 2009 July 22 oral history transcript and several scanned photographs.
Sue Lamm-Gurley Collection
The collection includes an August 2022 oral history transcript; photographs; newspaper clipping; uniform and nurse's cap; family genealogy book.
Dr. Mary Emily Lapham Collection
Adeline Sears LaPlante Collection
Adeline Sears LaPlante (1919-2006) of Easton, Pennsylvania, served as a recruiter and as a public relations officer in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945.
This collection includes letters, postcards and Christmas cards from LaPlante to her parents about her career in the WAAC and the WAC from 1943-1944. The collection also contains a photograph album, and news clippings from LaPlante's time in the service.
Maryelln Powers Laskowski Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 February 2002; various photographs of Maryelln during her service, 1942-1954; a copy of passport application, undated.
Helene Lawrence Collection
Edith Kimsey League Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 April 1999; a photograph of League in U.S. Army uniform, circa 1945.
Harriet L. Leete Collection
Alice Doretta Lentz Letters
This collection consists of twenty-two personal letters written by Lentz to her family that describe her life as a nurse, which included receiving vaccinations and watching as German prisoners of war arrived at her base. The letters also discuss news regarding her friends and her patients.
Lucile Griffin Leonard Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 January 1999; various correspondence, including Victory Mail, September 1943-May 1945; various photographs of Leonard’s United States Army service as dietician, circa 1944-1945 and undated; various military papers, 1943-1946; a scrapbook documenting Leonard's Army service, 1943-1945; Griffin's Army Dietician olive drab uniform, 1942-1943.
Pearl Harbor Letter
Three page letter typewritten dated December 13, 1941 from Honolulu signed by Ella that describes the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She worked at the hospital as a nurse on the base and watched the enemy planes fly "directly over the Hospital, then turn and some bombs fell about a half block from here." She then describes the scene left behind and says there is lots to do and though things do not look good on the island it is not going to get her down.
Eloise Rallings Lewis Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 1 March 1999; various photographs of Lewis' Army Nurse Corps service, 1945-1952; various military papers, 1945-1950; a Nurses' Guide handbook, 1945. There is an additional manuscript collection from Eloise Patricia Rallings Lewis at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/mss:MSS0128.
Gayle Offenbacher Lewis Collection
Gail Offenbacher Lewis (b. 1947), of Jacksonville, Oregon, served as an officer in the the United States Navy Nurse Corps and Navy Reserve from 1966 to 1994. Her service spanned the periods of The Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
The collection includes a 2008 December 22 oral history transcript and a CD with digitized photographs of Lewis during service with the Navy from 1968 to 1991.
Shirley Ann Thacker Lewis Collection
Shirley Ann Thacker Lewis (b. 1938) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1961 to 1965.
This collection includes 29 February 2008 oral history transcript; Official Navy paperwork.
Lucy Slade Libby Collection
Memoir written by Lucy on December 2004 "Memories of A World War II Army Nurse on Saipan"; photographs of Lucy at graduation from Duke nursing school; during her service in the war as a nurse at Camp Davis, Wilmington, North Carolina, and later photographs during service overseas along with a photocopied scrapbookwith details of each photograph, circa 1942-1945.
M. A. Lincoln Collection
Two 1917 letters describe Lincoln's desire to return home in the fall of 1917 to join the U.S. Army and her fears that she will not return in time to secure a favorable post.
Rebecca Ann Lloyd Collection
April 2006 oral history transcript; Buttons; Cap devices (2); Dog tags; Japanese pin and spoon; Nametags; National Defense medal and ribbon; Pin-on ranks: first lieutenant; major; lieutenant colonel; Plaques (oversize Box 3);Wooden box with United States Navy seal and dates of service engraved; and 1650 slides of Japan, Taipei, Thailand, and the Philippines; taken 1963-1964.
Lunary Love Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 April 2000.
Candace Lucas Collection
This collection includes December 2014 oral history transcript and photographs.