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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

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