WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fannie Griffin McClendon Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0659
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 July 2019; scanned photographs of McClendon's time in the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1951.
Dates:
1942-1951
Elizabeth Ann Ray Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0416
Abstract
Elizabeth "Betty" Ann Ray of Winnsboro, Texas, served as an officer in the United States Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), Women's Army Corps (WAC), and Women in the Air Force (WAF). Ray served as both deputy director and director of WAF. Her service career lasted from 1942 till 1964.
The collection includes 11 June 2008 oral history transcript; Military service resume; sheet of Women in the Armed Services stamps; photographs from service 1944-1973.
Dates:
1944-2008
Betty Etten Wiker Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0428
Content Description
This collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 September 2008; photographs of Betty during service as a Women's Army Corps (WAC) 1943-1949; copy of a letter home relaying an exciting bombing mission she was able to take part in. This was to bomb an ice jam on the Chena River to relieve a flooded area in Alaska; copy of a 3 page history of Women's Army Corps from 1942-1945; newpaper clippings circa 1978; 2006 and one undated; American Legion Magazine article on WAC 35th anniversary...
Dates:
1942-1949, 1952, 1977-1978, 2008