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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Dorothy B. Austell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0184
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 September 2000; a photograph of Austell in uniform, 1943.

Dates: 1943-2000

Mildred Caroon Bailey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0084
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Bailey in her Women’s Army Corps uniform, 1959-1971; various newspaper clippings, 1958-2000; various personal papers, including a copy of Bailey’s biography, October 1971; publication titled “Conversations between Brigadier General Mildred C. Bailey and Lieutenant Colonel Rhoda M. Messer,” September 1978; an oral history transcript, 26 May 1999.

Dates: 1958-2000

Betty U. Baker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0042
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 February 1999; photographs of Baker's Army Air Force service and after, 1944-1999.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Bertha Barwikowski Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0188
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 November 2000; a portrait photograph of Barwikowski in uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: 1944-2000

Martha Magruder Boger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0032
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 February 1999; a photograph of Boger with brief description, 11 May 1955.

Dates: 1955-1999

Jane Gail Brister Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0115
Scope and Contents The Brister Papers contains a significant amount of of printed materials and photos, primarily from her time stationed in Germany in 1945-1946, 1951-1954, and 1959-1961. These document her tours in the European Theater Intelligence School, the Intelligence Center at Camp King, the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces (HQ SHAEF), and the Soviet intelligence training school. Her experiences at Fort Oglethorpe; the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; Army...
Dates: 1943-1999

Violet K. Caudle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0066
Content Description

The collection includes various photograph copies of Caudle's service with the Women's Army Corps (WAC), 1945-1948; 2 copies of Honorable Discharge certificate, 9 July 1949; an oral history transcript, 20 April 1999.

Dates: 1945-1999

Mary Markarian Charpentier Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0528
Content Description

The collection contains photographs; honorable discharge papers; correspondence from Charpentier to her children in Nashua, New Hampshire; and copies of correspondence and photographs.

Dates: circa 1940s

Jane Hydes Council Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0093
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 June oral history transcript; photocopies of Council in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform with basic training group, Daytona Beach, Florida; photograph of Council in jeep for the Motor Pool Transport Training, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1943; photocopy of Certificate of Honorable Discharge from the Army, 1944; and copies of Army Discharge paperwork.

Dates: 1943-1999

Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0177
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various military papers from Edwards Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various photographs of Edwards Army Special Services work, 1943-1945.

Dates: 1943-2000

Mary Williams Elder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0029
Scope and Contents

The collection includes various correspondence among Women’s Army Corps veterans for stories to create a book, June 1992; brief biography on Elder’s military service, undated; various newspaper publications, including newsletters for Women's Army Corps, 1992-1998; an oral history transcript, 2 February 1999; various photographs of Elder, 1942-1994; postcards from the Norwich Central Public Library, circa 1960s.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Isabella Peterson Evans Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0173
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 June 2000; a photograph of Evans Women's Army Corps service, 1945.

Dates: circa 1945-2000

Reva Ingram Fortune Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0034
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 February 1999; various photographs of Fotrune’s Women’s Army Corps service as an Army Air Force Service Pilot, 1943-1947; various copies of letters, 1943; various newspaper articles from UNCG Campus Weekly and Greensboro News & Record, 1991-1997; a “Sky High Experience” article located in Oversized Box 1, 1997.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Thelma Foster Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0445
Abstract

Thelma Houpe Foster (1917-2010) served in the United States Women's Army Corps during World War II.

The collection includes a 2009 January 16 oral history transcript.

Dates: 2009 January 16

Nina M. Greenlee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0041
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, February 1999; 9 military pins; various military papers, 1948-1958; various personal papers, 1954-1980; photographs of Greenlee in England; miscellaneous correspondence.

Dates: circa 1948-1999

Dorothy Farrington Gribble Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0035
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 1999; various photographs of Gribble's service with the Women's Army Corps and Auxiliary Corps, April 1943-December 1944; newspaper article from Kenersville News, 11 November 1995.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Nancy Riddle Hinchliffe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0064
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 1999; various military papers from Hinchliffe's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; copies of "The Flyer: Publication Dedicated to the Service of Selfridge Field Personnel," publication, 13 May-5 August 1943; various personal papers, 1944-1945; various photographs of Hinchliffe during her service, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Marthalou Hunter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0105
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various photographs of Hunter during her service for Women's Army Corps, 1943-1945; various poetry written by Hunter.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Grace Illman Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0338
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 January 2006.

Dates: 2006 January 17

Henrietta Stevenson Ingram Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0030
Content Description

The collection includes photographs of Ingram while stationed at Douglas Army Air Force Base, AZ, March 1944; an oral history transcript, 3 February 1999.

Dates: 1944-1999

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

Dorothy H. Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0073
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 May 1999; various photographs of Jordan during her Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; various military papers, circa 1944; a Women's Army Corps booklet, 1984.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Ellen Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0130
Content Description

The collection includes a 1999 December oral history; Jordan at boot camp graduation in Camp Wolters, Texas; and various copies of photographs from Jordan's time at Camp Wolters, 1944-1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0142
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 November 2000; a “Song and Service Book for Ship and Field: Army and Navy,” 1942; a copy of Honorable Discharge paperwork, 21 February 1946; various photographs of Kaplowitz while serving in the Women's Army Corps (WAC), circa 1945; Artifact Box includes a bag of WAC Veteran's Association souvenir buttons; bottle openers.

Dates: circa 1944-2000

Audrey Brewington Knight Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0448
Content Description

The collection includes a 5 February 2009 oral history transcript and copies of photographs.

Dates: circa 1944,2009

Edith Kimsey League Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0061
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 April 1999; a photograph of League in U.S. Army uniform, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945-1999

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

Shirley McCorquodale Lyle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0116
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 November 1999; various photographs of Lyle's Army Nurse Corps service, 1943-1955.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Judy McKinnon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0249
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2001; a portrait photograph of McKinnon in summer uniform, circa 1944.

Dates: 1944-2001

Bernice Moran Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0104
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various personal correspondence; various photographs of Miller while serving with the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1945.

Dates: circa 1942-1999

Virginia Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0208
Content Description

The collection includes a 2001 April oral history transcript; photocopies of Army Honorable Discharge and Certificate of Service, 1943 to 1945; portrait photograph of Miller in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform; photograph of Miller in dress; and photograph of Miller in Olive drap winter uniform, circa 1941 to 1944.

Dates: circa 1941-1945

Emily Newcity Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0427
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 September 2008.

Dates: 2008 September 8

Emma Dale Newell Love Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0090
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Newell's Women's Army Corps service, 1944; scrapbook copies; various military papers, September 1944-October 1945; an oral history transcript, 4 June 1999.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Mattie Osborne Spicer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0107
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Spicer in Women's Army Corps uniform, circa 1944; the "Ronda" newsletter with Spicer's articles.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Constance Cline Phillips Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0082
Content Description

The collection includes various Women's Army Corps publications, 1944; 2 event programs, 1945; various photographs of Phillips Women's Army Corps service with the Women's Army Corps, 1945-1946; various military papers with identification passes, 1945-1946; correspondence with her parents and friends, February-April 1945, January-August 1946; an oral history transcript, 24 May 1999.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Mildred Curtis Scott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0092
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Scott's Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various military papers, June-December 1945.

Dates: 1943-1999

Norma Petree Shaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0217
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 24 May 2001; photographs of Norma in Manila, Philippines, 1945. Newspaper clippings, 1943; WAC certificate, 1943.

Dates: 1943, 1945, 2001

Davetter Shepard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0172
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 December 2000; portrait photograph of Shepard in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943.

Dates: circa 1943-2000

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

Lucy Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0081
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 May 1999; a photograph of Smith in Women's Army Corps uniform, 1943-1945.

Dates: circa 1943-1999

Ellen Brown Steel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0154
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 December 2000; various photographs of Steel's Women's Army Corps (WAC) service and retirement, 1950-1969; textiles include a uniform jacket without the brass, uniform skirt and uniform jacket, 1949-1969.

Dates: circa 1949-1969

Mary L. Sutton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0468
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 July 2009; a formal hand-tinted portrait photograph of Sutton in Women's Army Corps olive drab service shirtwaist, circa 1945; a photograph of Sutton standing in uniform at the day room of Fort Des Moines, Iowa; a photograph of Sutton in uniform with her brother, husband, and husband's brother, circa 1945.

Dates: circa 1945, 2009

Millie Dunn Veasey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0176
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various photographs of Veasey's Women's Army Corps service, 1944-1945; personal papers, including resume, undated.

Dates: 1944-2000

Willie Mae Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0202
Content Description

The collection includes a 2001 February oral history transcript; photograph of Williams in off-duty Women's Army Corps (WAC) dress with cap, circa 1944; a typed 4 page paper, "Women in the Military Services in the Past"; newspaper article (copy) of Williams on her 90th birthday, 2002 November 22; and additional items are available at Florida State University collections: https://archives.lib.fsu.edu/repositories/6/resources/494.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Doris Dickens Wilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0388
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 March 2007; copy of handwritten service memories and photocopy of photographs in scrapbook during service during WWII from 1942-1945.

Dates: 1942-1945, 2007