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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Clara Adams-Ender Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0332
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 September 2005; various photographs of her Army Nurse Corps service, 1964-1995.

Dates: 1964-1995, 2005

Dorothy Baker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0385
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 21 February 2007; Women in the Military Memorial booklet,1997; photocopy of article "Merchant Vessels Beome Mercy Ships" not dated; various photographs of Jean during service and later in life printed from the UNCG website.

Dates: circa 1944, 1997, 2007

Kay C. Barrett Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0289

Alice C. Boehret Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0166
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 May 2000; an Army Nurse Corps memoir, 1942-1946; various military papers; a photo album; personal papers, including copy of dissertation, 1972; various newspaper clippings; 3rd Service Command patch; herring bone twill (HBT) work uniform; wool liner for jacket and pants; scarf; boots.

Dates: 1942-2000

Shirley Van Brakle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0221
Content Description

The collection contains photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: circa 1942-1954

Jessie E. Brown Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0467
Content Description

The collection includes 27 letters from Brown, 1st Lieutenant Army Nurse Corps (ANC), to her Aunt Sarah E. Brown, 24 May 1946-14 December 1947T

Dates: 1946 May- 1947 December

Georgia Motsinger Burton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0246
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 31 January 2002.

Dates: 2002 January 31

Mary F. Cannon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0411
Content Description

Mary F. Cannon (1921-2012) of Chicago, Illinois, was stationed in Korea while a member of the Army Nurse Corps from 1951 to 1953 and in Vietnam during her service with the Navy Nurse Corps from 1958 to 1974.

This collection includes April 2008 oral history interview transcript available for use onsite in the archives, copies of photographs.

Dates: 2008 April 24

Agnes Cantwell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0086
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 27 May 1999; a copy of a New York Times article titled, "New Army Nurses Depart for Camp," 2 March 1945; various photographs of Cantwell's Army Nurse Corps service, 1945-1946.

Dates: 1945-1999

Catherine Cayle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0232
Content Description

The collection includes various correspondence among a close friend, Mrs. James R. Dickson, while Cayle was stationed at the Edgewood Arsenal, 23 November 1942-7 April 1945.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Nancy M. Christ Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0408
Content Description

Nancy Margaret Christ of North Brunswick, New Jersey, served as a nurse in the United States Army Nurse Corps from 1961 to 1981. Christ earned a Bronze Star for her service during the Vietnam War and retired as a lieutenant colonel.

This Collection includes 23 March 2008 oral history transcript; Tape of "Til the white dove flies alone" by Crystal Gayle made to commemorate the Vietnam Women's Memorial, Washington D.C. November 11, 1993.

Dates: 1993 November 11-2008 March 23

Diane Kay Corcoran Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0526
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 March 2012; various photographs, circa 1970 and 1990-1991; a poster of the Superintendents and Chiefs Army Nurse Corps, 1901-1975); Vietnam Army nurse uniforms (Hot Weather Field Uniform blouse and skirt; green and white cord striped summer blouse and skirt.)

Dates: circa 1970-2011

Beatrice L. Crisler Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0365
Content Description

This collection includes a letter dated 27 November 1943. Crisler describes her living conditions at her posting in India.

Dates: 1943 November 27

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

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

Janet Froome Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0120
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 November 1999; various correspondence, 1942-1944; various diary entries, 1942-1945; various military papers, 1941-1983; Memories of World War II, Froome interview with George L. McDermott; various photographs of Froome's Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1941-1999

Ruth King Garrett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0392
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 April 2007; various scans of photographs, along with a letter, 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2007

Ruth M. Gregg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0252
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Gregg's during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1943-1945; various correspondence with a Dr. Rossi, circa 1943-1944; various papers, including her engagement announcement, circa 1946; Oversize box 2: The Stars and Stripes magazine, 7 June 1944.

Dates: 1943-1945

Eileen E. Hallstein Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0712
Content Description The collection includes a scrapbook, 1943-1945. The album begins with a group of images of Eileen’s home life at a farm in Illinois, followed by photos from her time training as a nurse at Gardiner General Hospital in Chicago, Fort Dix, New Jersey and Camp Atterbury, Indiana. The rest of the images mainly depict her time in England: the 231st hospital buildings at Morley Hall, Norfolk, nurses posing and relaxing on the hospital grounds, nurses at drill, an interior view of an orthopedic...
Dates: 1943-1945

Nina Harmon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0525
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2012; various scanned photographs.

Dates: circa 1991 and 2012

Mary Anson Hennessy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0575
Content Description

The collection includes am oral history transcript, 12 December 2014; 5 photographs of Hennessy, circa 1966-1968; a poem written by Hennessy titled "1967: Brooke Army Medical Center."

Dates: circa 1966-1968

Evelyn Henson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0214
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 May 2001; portrait photograph of Evelyn; Army Nurse Corps service uniform and garrison cap, circa 1945.

Dates: 1945, 2001

Lillie M. Henson Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0068
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 April 1999.

Dates: 1999 April 24

Portia Hunter Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0268
Content Description

This collection includes Correspondence from Hunter to her brother, January 1944 to March 1945; Correspondence to Evelyn Crick Hunter from her siblings Don and Genny Crick. SEE ALSO the Genevieve Crick collection.

Dates: 1944-1945

Mildred Smith Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0192
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 December 2000; a photograph, circa 2000.

Dates: 1954-1961

Elna Allran Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0023
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 January 1999; various photographs of Jones will serving with the Cadet and Army Nurse Corps, 1944-1947; various Navy publications, 1944-1945; 2 copies of Jones poetry, 1945-1947; various ephemera from locations Jones was stationed, 1945-1946; various holiday menus from military camps, 1945-1947; Cadet Nurse Patch With Caduceus Pin; Cadet Nurse Patch; Caduceus Pin; photograph album, 1945-1947 containing photographs from: Camp Rucker,...
Dates: circa 1944-1999

Hazel Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0244
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 January 2002; various photographs of Jones during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1943-1950.

Dates: circa 1942-1965

Katie S. King Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0334
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1944-2005

Jane Fraley Kodack Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0471
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2009 October 1

BJ Kramer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0582
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1961-1983

Eloise Rallings Lewis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV0047
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

Lucy Slade Libby Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0328
Content Description

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.

Dates: circa 1942-1945, 2004

Jamie Marshall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0206
Content Description

7 folders of personal correspondence 1943-1945; oil ration coupons, 1943; Houston Lighting and Power Comp. Employee documents for Henry Marshall; Newspaper article photocopy dated Friday, October 20,1944: an editorial from the Stars and Stripes titled" Don't Get Chummy with Jerry".

Dates: 1943-1945

Marie M. Mason Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0510
Content Description

Marie M. Mason (b. 1916), of Swan Quarter, North Carolina, served overseas in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.

This collection includes March 2011 oral history transcript and scanned photographs.

Dates: 2011 March 19

Bertha Nichols McClure Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0478
Abstract

Bertha "Nicki" Nichols McClure (b. 1921) of Greensboro, North Carolina served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) during World War II and the Korean War. During World War II she was stationed at Guam, Iwo Jima, and Saipan during combat operations in the Pacific.

The collection includes a 2010 February 19 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2010 February 19

Bernice B. McCormack Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0161
Content Description

The collection includes an overseas duty ribbon; Army Nurse Corps brown/white striped seersucker laced cap; olive drab garrison cap, includes gold/.black piping of rank and caduceus, circa 1943; McCormack's diary, 1942-1944; military papers, including newspaper clippings, of Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1948; memoir of WWII service, 2000.

Dates: 1942-2000

Jessie E. McIntyre Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0237
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2002; copy of the statements from Franz Ziereis, a previous commander of Concentration Camps; photograph copy of an Army report from a concentration camp at Gosen #1, in the vicinity of Mauthausen detailing nationality, health conditions, numbers of the prisoners with detailed conditions of the camp when evacuated on May 14, 1945. Black and white photocopied photographs of the deceased prisoners in piles as the Army found them...
Dates: 1943-1945

Margaret J. McNulty Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0558
Content Description This collection includes four photograph albums of Army and Air Force Nurse Margaret McNulty. The albums contain personal photographs and postcards of post-World War II Europe and Washington D.C. Most of the photographs document McNulty's life in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. The albums include photographs and ephemera from England; Scotland; France; Switzerland; Italy; Holland; Belgium; Austria; Germany; Monaco; and the Vatican City as well as Washington D.C. and the Arlington...
Dates: circa 1940s-1950s

Doris O. Melvin Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0243
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 30 January 2002.

Dates: 2002 January 30

Carol Nachtrab Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0404
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 February 2008; Discharge paperwork copy from the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War; typewritten memories of service in Vietnam; computer printed images from Judy Vaker Williams ANC RVN 67th Evac, circa 2008; Copy of "To Save a Life.67th Medical Group 1970-1971" brochure highlighting the history, achievements, personnel, and commendations of the United States Army's 67th Medical Group, which at the time of printing was on its fourth...
Dates: 1970-1971, 2007-2008

Maribeth Snyder Peters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0530
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 March 2012; various scanned photographs, circa 1968-1971.

Dates: 1969-2012

Annie Pozyck Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0333
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 July 2005; personal letters (photocopies) from January 1945 - September 1945; Textile box contains Army Nurse Corps olive drab wool officers jacket and skirt, circa 1943; bronze star medal with asiata pacific insignia; WWII victory medal; Phillipines liberation medal; United States Navy gold insignia; American Campaign medal; Army services patch. portrait photograph of Annie and also a portrait photograph of Annie and her husband in...
Dates: 1943-1946, 2005

Estelle Garner Ptaszynski Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0033
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 February 1999; various photographs of Ptaszynski’s Army Nurse Corps service as a surgical nurse, 1943-1944.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Sammie M. Rice Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0257
Content Description

The collection includes various correspondence, 1942-1947; various photographs of Rice during her Army Nurse Corps service, circa 1942-1945; various clippings, including topics about her service and when in college, circa 1942-1950.

Dates: 1942-1950