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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:

Cindy Kempkes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0623
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1979-2016

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

Adeline Sears LaPlante Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0395
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1942-1945

Candace Lucas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0573
Content Description

This collection includes December 2014 oral history transcript and photographs.

Dates: 2006-2014

Betty Magnusson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0341
Scope and Contents Letters from Magnusson to a friend at home in Duluth, Minnesota, chiefly document Magnusson's service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in Iowa, Virginia, and France. Letters from Fort Des Moines describe WAC uniforms; drills, including a gas mask drill; WAC facilities and buildings; and social activities at the fort and in Des Moines. Letters from Newport News detail Magnusson's perspective on the South and southerners; the reaction of male soldiers and civilians to the WACs; entertainment,...
Dates: 1943-1945

Chely McAninch Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0497
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 August 2010.

Dates: 2010 August 9

Rachel Summers McGee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0016
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 January 1999; various photographs of McGee during her service, circa 1942 and undated; 1 newspaper clipping featuring McGee, undated; 2 pages from "Army Life" magazine, May 1943; a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps summer khaki uniform with leather pocketbook.

Dates: circa 1942-1943

Marie E. Merrill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0250
Content Description

photocopies of photographs; Olive Drab Jacket, circa 1942-1950.

Dates: 1945-2002

Nancy Farrell Neubauer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0412
Content Description

The collection includes a 2008 April oral history transcript, 3 typed letters regarding Neubauer's position, Army Payroll Change Slip, newspaper clipping of Neubauer's selection as program director of the At Ease Service Club in Ascom, and member list of US Army Ascom District.

Dates: circa 1966 May-1967 July; 2008 April 26

Eleanor K. Peck Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0420
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of fifteen letters written by Peck to her family beginning a few days after her arrival in London, England, on 31 October 1941. The letters are addressed to "Poppy", which may be her father, and "Ros", which may be a nickname for her younger sister Rosamond, as well as her family. All fifteen letters describe the people and everyday life in London before she was commissioned by the Army, and discuss any news from the war and her family.

Dates: 1941-1943

Ellen R. Peebles Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0502
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 October 2010.

Dates: 2010 October 20

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

Thelma L. Meyer Petty Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0375
Scope and Contents The collection contains Thelma Meyer's diary of the years 1943 to 1945 when she worked in the motor pool out of Fort Myer outside of Washington D.C. It also includes miscellaneous papers regarding her time in the WAAC and WAC. The collection also contains many newspaper clippings, some concerning the WAACs, military humor and life around the time of her service. Correspondence consists of letters to her, some from friends in the service including a serviceman stationed in Italy. The...
Dates: 1942 - 1948; Other: Majority of material found within 1942 - 1945

Marie Louise Pihlblad Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0326
Scope and Contents Marie Louise Pihlblad was a member of the Women's Army Corp (WAC) during World War II. Correspondence from Marie Louise Pihlblad begins in August 1942 and ends in April 1945. Letters detail Pihlblad's daily routine as a WAC; life in the WAC barracks and mess hall at Camp Lee; USO shows; her brief stay at Washington and Lee University where she attended military classes; and her social activities and personal travels. Described in detail are the WAC uniforms, including elements of design,...
Dates: 1942-1945

Jane Pritchard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0424
Scope and Contents

The contents of this collection contains three letters from 1945 from Pritchard's friend Private First Class Susan Peters, who was stationed in Florence, Italy as a member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). These letters describe the places around the world that Peters travelled to, and her fellow WACs. There is also one photograph of an unnamed woman - presumably Jane Pritchard - in a naval uniform.

Dates: 1945; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2008

Carrie Radnik Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0269
Abstract

Carrie Radnik of Montrose, Alabama, served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.

Collection includes oral history interview and photographs from Radnik's service with the Army Nurse Corps in Louisiana and in Australia and New Guinea in the early 1940s.

Dates: 1942-1945, 2003

Virginia Russell Reavis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0183
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 September 2000; various military paperwork, 1944-1945; various photographs of Reavis during her Army Air Force service, 1943; an article published from the Tideland News, Swansboro, NC, 2000; an Army Air Evacuation Nurse Wings metal uniform pin located in Artifact box.

Dates: 1943-2000

Geraldine Smith Richardson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0373
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a Major Geraldine Smith Richardson's journal spanning from 1942-1946, two military identification cards, an Ancient Order of the Deep membership card, three military medals, and an assortment of military insignia.

Dates: 1942-2000; Other: Majority of material found within 1942 - 1946; Other: Date acquired: 09/17/2006

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

Natasha Sudderth Schoonover Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0544
Abstract

Natasha Suddreth Schoonover (b. 1978), of Boone, North Carolina, served in the United States Army National Guard from 1995 until 2005.

The collection includes an oral history transcript and digitized newspaper articles.

Dates: 1995-2005

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

Marcia Jones Snow Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0600
Content Description

This collection includes December 2015 oral history transcript; copies of photographs; and Vietnamese safe conduct pass.

Dates: 1965-1972, 1977-1981, 2015

Ruth M. Strawn Letters

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0423
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eight personal letters from Strawn to Mrs. and/or Mr. Webster of West Covington, Kentucky, and one letter from Strawn's friend Lauretta to her parents.These letters talk about the active life she enjoyed with Lauretta and their fellow WACs off-duty. She also described the places she, Lauretta, and her parents travelled to, discussed her brief stay in the base hospital whlie undergoing surgery for a hernia, and lastly her excitement that the end of the...
Dates: 1945-1946; Other: Date acquired: 04/14/2008

The Inez Stroud Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0009
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Stroud while serving in the Women's Army Corps, 1943-1969; a copy of 12 pages from a Stroud scrapbook which include newspaper clippings, circa 1940s; various papers from her WAC duties; a WAC Handbook for the Fort Des Moines Training Center, undated; a brief biography of Stroud used at her memorial service, November 1994; 3 loose sheets with song lyrics, undated.

Dates: circa 1943 - 1994

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

Donna Barr Tabor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0521
Content Description

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 May 2011; 9 various scanned photographs while with the 82nd Airborne Division and with her fiancé, Edward, circa 1980.

Dates: 1980-2011

Flora V. Taylor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0527
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 January 2012; a Coast Guard pin.

Dates: 1980s-2012

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

Roberta Wooddell House and Nancy Wooddell Thornton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0363
Scope and Contents Folder one contains photographs of Roberta and Nancy as well as a few family photographs. The photographs also include publicity photographs of Roberta as a WAAC at Luke Field, Arizona and Chandler, Arizona.Folder two contains ten letters written by both Roberta and Nancy to their Mother, Aunt May and Grandmother. These letters discuss general news, such as Nancy's reaction to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, and updates on their lives in the military. There is also...
Dates: 1941-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2006

Frances Stanley Trembath Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0492
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of military and miscellaneous documents from 1942-1946; there are also twenty-one photos of Trembath, her nursing colleagues, hospital buildings, and waterfalls. There is one handwritten, unsigned letter from the Western Marine Railway company, asking for a travel refund.

Dates: 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/2010

Dale Augusta Van Vacter Angers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0159
Content Description

The collection includes photograph of Angers in uniform, circa 1940s; handwritten timeline of service.

Dates: circa 1942-1963

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

Maria Felger Wayne Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0500
Content Description

Maria Felger Wayne (b. 1964), of Van Wert, Ohio, served in the United States Army as a transportation officer from 1985 until 1993.

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 October 2010; various scanned photographs.

Dates: 2010 October 14

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