WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Josephine L. DePietro Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0461
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of twenty-eight letters written to and from DePietro's friends and family. The collection begins with the letters written by DePietro when she attended nursing school; the last letter in the collection is addressed to her parents and discusses news from family and provides updates on her activities. Most of the letters are written to her; there are letters from her significant other Sam, who was stationed with the Army Air Force at Bowman Field in Kentucky. There are...
Dates:
1938-1945; Other: Date acquired: 2009 April 13
Lola H. Ryan Letters
Collection
Identifier: WV 0362
Scope and Contents
The collection contains approximately 120 letters and v-mail written by Lola Ryan to her parents and brother. Ryan discusses her experiences of being a nurse in basic training, the conditions in wartime France, German prisoners of war, her experiences as a wartime nurse, and her longing to return home and be discharged from the army.
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