WV. Women military veterans
Record Group
Identifier: WV
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Bernice Isabel Heath Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0195
Content Description
20 January 2001 oral history transcript; Artifact 1 box contains dogtag; insignia and discharge pins; copy of the History of the 91st Evacuation Hospital Overseas written by Ruth Schwing head nurse, 1945; War Correspondent Broadcast transcript of Iris Carpenter from the 91st Evac Hospital, undated; 91st Research News newsletter, circa 1991; typed "unofficial diary kept by an enlisted man Shorty Reese containing the history of the 91st evac hosp from 1942-45, 2001; newspaper article on...
Dates:
1948-1964
Madge P. Selstead Inman and Marvin R. Inman Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WV 0367
Dates:
1945 March-June, 1958 June, 1965 June
Paula Silverman Isenberg Oral History
Collection
Identifier: WV 0507
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 February 2011.
Dates:
2011 February 2
Florence Bevins and Phyllis Jung Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0671
Content Description
The collection includes 15 letters addressed to Shirlie Montgomery from her friends, Bevins and Jung, who both served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, 24 March 1943-26 April 1945. Jung's letters discuss her work and social life with the 151st WAAC Tech Company and later with WAC recruitment in Washington, D.C. Bevins letters begin with her completion of basic training at Daytona Beach, then describing WAC life, K.P. duty, being nicknamed the "Queen of the Latrine" at Camp...
Dates:
1943 March-1945 April
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
Helen Shoobridge Oral History
Collection
Identifier: WV 0473
Abstract
Helen Shoobridge served in the United States' Women's Army Corps [WAC] during World War Two in the United States, New Guinea, and the Philippines.
The collection includes a 2004 December oral history transcript.
Dates:
2004 December